Labor conditions

Re: [spiers] Labor conditions


On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:35:58 -0700, Paul Snyder
wrote :

... it sounds like there is free will being exercised
> by the workers....

Which is rather the salient point... do people freely enter this employment? If
so, then we are
hardly in a position to criticize, let alone reject... One may argue that a
given system is rigged,
and therefore the best possible job, freely chosen, is nonetheless highly
exploitative.

If so, that is their problem to sort out with their government. People can and
do throw the
crooks out, such as Duvalier, Marcos, the Shah etc. (indeed, the shah was our
puppet like
saddam hussein, and the people ousted the shah... I think we ought to have
waited for iraqis to
dipose of saddam).

And it is getting harder to compare wages when yet another airline, this time
Delta, spurns its
pension responsibilities. If pensions will not be paid, then people never were
earning what they
thought. One way or another, in time all pensions will be bust, the best we can
hope for is they
bust them in an orderly manner.

In the meantime, the chinese observe and adapt.

John

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