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The alternative is trying to get cheap workers from abroad, which worked quite well in the past and still seems to do well to some extent - if you can accept al
by mk89 8y ago
The alternative is trying to get cheap workers from abroad, which worked quite well in the past and still seems to do well to some extent - if you can accept all the challenges this way of doing business carries along on social/security/national level.
Times are changing, though, and absolute poverty is thankfully not everywhere an issue anymore, which leaves it to relative poverty: I can't afford Netflix => I am poor. In such cases, people are much less likely to do that "shitty not-well-paid job" for long. Selling drugs is much more convenient and profitable, for example. Also, more and more countries are restricting their borders, making it harder for cheap workers from abroad to come and do such jobs.
So, yes, the other alternative is: raise the salary!
- hvindin 8y agoInteresting comment: > Selling drugs is much more convenient and profitable, for example. I know its not related to the original topic, nor the core point of your comment but I'd be fascinated to know why you think this. Based on my knowledge of the market WRT wholesale prices/retail (street) prices/legal risks/product expiry/supply chain reliability as well as just the statistics around anyone towards the bottom few levels of the pyrmaid on this I'm almost certain that this is roughly never the case. I find it interesting that this assumption seems to still exist, and suspect that a suprising number of people would harbor a fallback position of "if shit gets really bad I could just sell drugs" which makes a lot of assumptions about how profitable it could possibly be.
- mk89 8y agoI think it highly depends on 1) the severity of the law of your country, 2) the demand, 3) where you live (how many gangs are out there, how dangerous it is ..etc.). Also, selling drugs doesn't imply selling hard drugs, which in many countries (in Europe at least) is the real "reason" to worry. The money they make in 1-2 days, depending on what they sell, is way above an average salary (again... talking only about Europe). 1 or 2 days of selling marijuana and maybe cocaine in "good" places (of course, not in the middle of nowhere). So, why wouldn't someone do it, instead of wiping people's asses or cleaning toilets?