re: #138 Gus 802

Base salaries at Hon Hai’s Shenzhen factories will rise to 2,000 yuan ($293) a month

How the hell are American workers going to compete with that? You can come up with all kinds of excuses about the EPA, OSHA, EOE, and other government agencies and even if you completely eliminated all Federal regulations you’d never be able to pay American labor $293 a month.

Sure you could. Hell, how often do you hear the argument “Things cost so much because of unions/regulations/taxes/etc”? It’s the backbone of the “free market” BS, that the reason things cost so much these days is because so much “unnecessary” stuff is factored into the cost. If all of it went away, why, we’d be living in a virtual nirvana. After all, these big corporations wouldn’t do anything to harm their workers or customers…right?