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>From: GM0CSZ@GB7NOS.#76.GBR.EU
>To : ENERGY@WW
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>VK2AAB wrote:-
>> I was in a men's wear section of a major retailer yesterday and I could
find>> only one item that was not made in China and it was made in India !!
>>
>> I wonder where the people who buy these things work ?
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>Some of them will highly likely design that clothing.
>
>It is the reality of the 21st century ; the wages in the developed world's
>manufacturing industry ,especially in the low skills sector ,are too high
>compared with those in developing countries.
However if the lower skilled workers are living on welfare they won't be
able to buy the goods anyway. The task of government is to provide work for as
near to everyone as possible otherwise the skilled will have nothing left over
after tax with which to buy the imports.
>
>In the years to come it will be even more difficult to compete when the
>general skills level in the developing countries will enable people
>overthere to do the design as well.
Its not in the years to come, it is here and now. The sox making town in China
makes a pair of sox for 8 cents US. They use machines to make the sox and
labour is so cheap that they can employ girls to inspect and finish off the
sox. It is not the labour costs in developed countries that need adjusting it
is the labour costs in the producing countries that need fixing as well as
their undervalued currencies.
>We in the devloped world will be able to survive provided we can reduce
>our cost and widen the services sector.
How do you reduce the costs here when they are using the same machines we
would use ?
>In the UK there is a lack of skilled workers in a number of sectors
>involving manual work .
This is largely driven by youths not wanting to get their hands dirty and
wishing to play computers at work. Hence the only industry in Australia with
a major unemployment problem is the IT industry.
There is a major risk in free trade area development of massive unemployment
in high cost (read high wage) countries.
Wages are the only difference between the so called undeveloped countries and
the developed countries. They use the same machines and technologies.
>I understand that in the London area accountants and lawyers attend
>evening classes in plumbing........that says it all.
>The key to solving the developed world's employment woes is ..........job
>flexibility and removing excessive job demarcation.
>
>An example of the latter is development of the oil/gas industry in Western
>Australia where at the time the drivers of trucks transporting supplies to
>a construction yard could drive the vehicle with its load up to the gate
>,whereafter ANOTHER driver employed inside the yard had to take over
>,moving the goods a few 100 metres to its destination and returning the
>empty truck to the gate ,before the 'outside the gate' driver could get
>his truck back.
>This happened in the 1980s ...........I wonder whether these practices
>have changed 20 years later ;))
>
Well I hadn't herd that one but I would believe it. I doubt if it still
continues.
>73 - Frank , GM0CSZ @ GB7NOS.#76.GBR.EU
> Inver by Tain , IV20 1RX Scotland UK Loc: IO87AT
>
73 Barry VK2AAB
The big advantage of standards is that there are plenty from which to choose.
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