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Please leave, we’d love it
by killingtime74 6y ago
Please leave, we’d love it
- rasz 6y agoLike you loved GM leaving?
- eindiran 6y agoGM as in General Motors? Is there some context here I am not aware of?
- wryun 6y agoGM closed their Australian factory a few years ago (Holden), and recently stopped selling cars here entirely.
- harry8 6y agoAustralia used to have tariff barriers to support local car manufacturers. Ford, GM, Chrysler/Mitsubishi set up. From that we got a local industry and poor quality, expensive cars. Tariff barriers were removed, GM shut down local production. Is that a good thing now Toyotas are cheaper? Opinions vary. Were the jobs working for GM that were lost made up elsewhere as s result of the end of the tariffs? You guessed it, opinions vary. Google don't pay meaningful tax in Australia so it's hard to like them here.
- rasz 6y agoLet me try again: Like you loved Altium leaving? I didnt mention Toyota because it might seem like a win in some peoples eyes (invaders retreating). Yay for cheaper cars you cant afford because your manufacturing job was moved to Thailand due to half assed half-free trade deals. Sooner or later you will either work in a mine, or in service industry feeding/taking care for the miners. https://theconversation.com/the-curse-of-the-resources-boom-could-our-wealth-be-our-ultimate-weakness-9635 https://theconversation.com/the-curse-of-the-resources-boom-...
- simonblack 6y agoGM cost Australia to stay. Australia is is better off overall without GM.
- rasz 6y agoAustralia is not a singular entity. Are Australians who lost jobs better off now? Reductio ad absurdum Australia would flourish with no people in it whatsoever, just automated resource extraction operations by Rio Tinto strip mining whole continent to the benefit of few stock holders.
- simonblack 6y agoBack in the 80s or 90s, one of the Labor Industrial politicians concluded that it would be cheaper to give every GM and Ford worker a million dollars payoff than to continue to heavily subsidise both Ford and GM car manufacturing in Australia. And then to remove all tariffs on imported cars from overseas, giving better, cheaper cars for Australians. This has finally been done. As for those Australian workers who lost jobs to overseas manufacturing, it's pretty much the same as all those workers in other developed countries whose jobs have been outsourced.