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Maybe this scenario would work better if it included a significant minority of the workers who took night school machine class, and then took jobs as machinist
by merpnderp 11y ago
Maybe this scenario would work better if it included a significant minority of the workers who took night school machine class, and then took jobs as machinist for a significant raise, leaving a shortage of workers willing to accept sweatshop salaries.
The Yvain example only works when there is an unlimited supply of untrained labor, who can't be replaced with more productive but higher trained workers, or automation.
- jimbokun 11y ago" The Yvain example only works when there is an unlimited supply of untrained labor, who can't be replaced with more productive but higher trained workers, or automation." Isn't this the actual situation for manufacturing workers right now, until we run out of places with desperately poor people?
- mistermann 11y ago> The Yvain example only works when there is an unlimited supply of untrained labor, who can't be replaced with more productive but higher trained workers, or automation. You'll find plenty of low skilled people most anywhere in the world, even in first world nations due to welcoming immigration policies.
- superuser2 11y ago>who took night school machine class Even large cushy Silicon Valley tech companies would say that if you have the time and energy left for night school, you're not giving 100% at work, not a team player, not a culture fit, etc. I can't imagine why sweatshop workers would be allowed a day so short that they had time for eduction, absent regulation or unions.