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"Americans don't have a god-given right to their jobs"
<Anonymous-Remailer@See.Comment.Header> wrote in message
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> BY DAVID MCHUGH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
> Posted on Sunday, August 13, 2006
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> BERLIN - With almost 5 million people out of work, Germany's labor market
> might seem a manager's dream when it comes to filling jobs - easy pickings
> from a sea of applicants.
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> Not so for entrepreneur Martin Hubschneider when he needs top talent for
> his software firm in Karlsruhe, Germany. He's said he's been forced to
> search for the skills needed to develop the complex customer relations
> programs his CAS Software AG sells.
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> "For a year now, it has been harder to find employees in the information
> technology field, particularly highly qualified ones," Hubschneider said.
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then pay them more. is that so difficult to understand?
hosing, oil, iron, copper, water, insurance, wheat - all sorts of prices are
skyrocketing (and no one complained) , but skilled workers' pay has to be
kept flat at any cost?
these yuppies should read some political economy books.
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| Les Cargill 2006-08-24, 6:58 pm |
| anon wrote:
> "Americans don't have a god-given right to their jobs"
> <Anonymous-Remailer@See.Comment.Header> wrote in message
> news:NDJPAK3838951.7441203704@anonymous...
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> then pay them more. is that so difficult to understand?
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> hosing, oil, iron, copper, water, insurance, wheat - all sorts of prices are
> skyrocketing (and no one complained) , but skilled workers' pay has to be
> kept flat at any cost?
>
> these yuppies should read some political economy books.
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You are absolutely right. And here's why, I think.
Tim Allen (of all people) said it best - "men have two
choices - a job or prison". So a job isn't optional. So
people think modestly-paying jobs are more important,
perhaps even in utilitarian terms, more moral.
People accept the 19th century fallacy* that wages
are the determinant to cost of goods - even though
such as Drucker appear to have proven this false.
*wasn't a fallacy then, but it is now.
So they think "better any job than no job", never
mind that the good paying jobs ( which
are not pure rent-s ing) are the ones which probably
make everybody wealthier.
Since the not-rent-sing employment curve is left
flat, guess what we're left with?
When people stop reasoning, the only coin
they are interested in is suffering.
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Les Cargill
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| The Trucker 2006-08-25, 9:57 pm |
| "Les Cargill" <lNOcargill@cfl.Arr.com> wrote in message
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> anon wrote:
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> You are absolutely right. And here's why, I think.
>
> Tim Allen (of all people) said it best - "men have two
> choices - a job or prison". So a job isn't optional. So
> people think modestly-paying jobs are more important,
> perhaps even in utilitarian terms, more moral.
>
> People accept the 19th century fallacy* that wages
> are the determinant to cost of goods - even though
> such as Drucker appear to have proven this false.
>
> *wasn't a fallacy then, but it is now.
>
> So they think "better any job than no job", never
> mind that the good paying jobs ( which
> are not pure rent-sing) are the ones which probably
> make everybody wealthier.
>
> Since the not-rent-sing employment curve is left
> flat, guess what we're left with?
Elaborate, please. I believe that Henry George discovered the proper
solution to this problem though its illustration was done with land (hard
dry stuff under the feet). The proper answer is the redistributuon of a
very large share of economic rent. Much larger than at present.
--
"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers
of society but the people themselves; and
if we think them not enlightened enough to
exercise their control with a wholesome
discretion, the remedy is not to take it from
them, but to inform their discretion by
education." - Thomas Jefferson
http://GreaterVoice.org
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| Les Cargill 2006-08-26, 6:57 pm |
| The Trucker wrote:
> "Les Cargill" <lNOcargill@cfl.Arr.com> wrote in message
> news:ATrHg.8985$bZ6.4798@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
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> Elaborate, please. I believe that Henry George discovered the proper
> solution to this problem though its illustration was done with land (hard
> dry stuff under the feet). The proper answer is the redistributuon of a
> very large share of economic rent. Much larger than at present.
>
Land rent is only one class of rent sing.
The rest of my comment is just wondering why we don't push for
*high paid*, high-productivity job growth. I think there's
an economic schadenfreunde in play.
--
Les Cargill
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