That's ridiculous. Companies and workers havent changed one bit in the last 50 years. Big coorperations have got everybody brainwashed into believing it was the unions fault for their demise. When in truth it was both the greedy and incompetent way they ran their businesses..The company I worked for GM is a great example..They've kept the same old farts in their engineering department for the last 50 years..These men have no imagination when it comes to drawing up and producing a cutting edge ahead of the curve automobile. Yet, this company has still insisted on expanding and spreading themselves thin with new low mileage SUV and truck plants. They never think about the future.
My plant was building small to midsized cars in the 90's and working all of the overtime we wanted when Clinton was President and the economy was booming...In fact we built more cars under Clinton than the Reagan and Bush administations combined..Then GM had the brilliant idea of retooling our plant and bringing in the newest SUV instead of staying with their bread and butter small good gas mileage car...They made this gamble at several plants around the country in early 2000...And it backfired. The bottom line is this company spread themselves too thin. And now their having to fold up shop...Now why is this the unions fault? The union and the company have negotiated our contracts and wages avery 4 years..And GM never minded paying us this salary when they were doing well..But now that their not it's all of a sudden the union's fault? I don't think so. GM got themselves in this mess, they can get themselves out.
It's all about these big businesses and the way they run their companies..They could all take a lesson from Toyota on how to do things right...By the way, Toyota of America is union...And their doing just fine.
And they get that way because big business' lobbyist buy them and that brings us back to the original question.
You have a stronger academic background in economics than my 12 semester hrs. but I still think that it takes government control to keep business "straight" and God knows it takes a lot of vigilance to keep government "straight".
corporations are protected for suits against them and property rights are a big issue
in the free markets they don't have this protection from government
so if they fuck up your land, or fuck up your body, or fuck up the river, you can sue their asses much easier
all i took was a basic college economics classes (i'm engineer by trade but that got boring)
all you hear spouted learned via study on the intertube
college is a waste of money (especially now and in non techical studies.....40k a year for a business degree is utterly a waste use that money to start your own business and learn on your own....) for the most part although it gives you the diploma i suppose
personally you can learn alot of shit you learn in school on your own
in the free markets they don't have this protection from government
so if they fuck up your land, or fuck up your body, or fuck up the river, you can sue their asses much easier
all i took was a basic college economics classes (i'm engineer by trade but that got boring)
all you hear spouted learned via study on the intertube
college is a waste of money (especially now and in non techical studies.....40k a year for a business degree is utterly a waste use that money to start your own business and learn on your own....) for the most part although it gives you the diploma i suppose
personally you can learn alot of shit you learn in school on your own
well its hard now with the property rights issue
now you need a premit to dig a fucking hole in YOUR yard
eminent domain shit is just more government getting in the way and in bed with corporations
but the root of all this corporate hating is government involvement
the "regulation" is just appeasement to us all that they are looking out for us....
now you need a premit to dig a fucking hole in YOUR yard
eminent domain shit is just more government getting in the way and in bed with corporations
but the root of all this corporate hating is government involvement
the "regulation" is just appeasement to us all that they are looking out for us....
well i guess just keep thinking that government is watching them for you
and have your interest not the corporations in mind
its blatantly obvious they aren't
i'm not saying free markets are perfect there is no perfect system people gonna get screwed over in any economic system
but its the fairest system it puts us all on a level playing field some will lose some will win....survival of the fittest
but its better than our government officials being in the pockets of corporations
today its a rigged game that favors the rich and powerful....thus the reason you see more wealth continue to be concentrated into fewer hands
today currently in america we are quite a ways away from free markets....so today's situation isn't really a good example to even compare to
and have your interest not the corporations in mind
its blatantly obvious they aren't
i'm not saying free markets are perfect there is no perfect system people gonna get screwed over in any economic system
but its the fairest system it puts us all on a level playing field some will lose some will win....survival of the fittest
but its better than our government officials being in the pockets of corporations
today its a rigged game that favors the rich and powerful....thus the reason you see more wealth continue to be concentrated into fewer hands
today currently in america we are quite a ways away from free markets....so today's situation isn't really a good example to even compare to
