rylan1
Active Member
Originally Posted by COWFISHRULE
matter of economics.
it costs a company 3.25 example to make a shirt to retail at 14.99
thats labor, raw materials, transportation (both inland china, aws- all water service, customs, transportation inland-us, and profit)
labor is extremely inexpensive there. so cheap as a matter of fact, i used to export electronic parts made in england to china to be assembled and then shipped to the us.
regardless of what they say, your average worker in china might make $2/day, if they are lucky. your average worker here makes i dunno, $7.50/hour.
that 14.99 shirt would most likely be $28-$30.
besides. the tree hugging environmentalists would probably be protesting the emissions from the factory, where as in china, anything goes (almost).
on top of that, the demand for these goods is constant, if not on a continuous rise. to have to go out and rebuild all these factories would take too long, cause a sharp rise in goods due to supply/demand, and add even more $ on top of that because the greedy investors would demand an almost immediate ROI.
you figure it out.
I agree with you... its all about the bottom dollar and maximizing profit. I think that this is a flaw with a capitalist market... its all about the dollar first and the employee second. This outsourcing effects all businesses...because I work in advertising and one of our competitors outsource ad design to India.
Now I have nothing against people in these other countries... they are using outsourcing to lift them out of third-world status... but the problem I have is that on average CEO's make 600x more than their average employee. I think that corporate greed is why we have many of the economic problems we are facing today and in the past....
You'll have a company layoff 1000 workers, yet the CEO will still make $20 million that year, with an additional $5 million going into his retirement fund.
matter of economics.
it costs a company 3.25 example to make a shirt to retail at 14.99
thats labor, raw materials, transportation (both inland china, aws- all water service, customs, transportation inland-us, and profit)
labor is extremely inexpensive there. so cheap as a matter of fact, i used to export electronic parts made in england to china to be assembled and then shipped to the us.
regardless of what they say, your average worker in china might make $2/day, if they are lucky. your average worker here makes i dunno, $7.50/hour.
that 14.99 shirt would most likely be $28-$30.
besides. the tree hugging environmentalists would probably be protesting the emissions from the factory, where as in china, anything goes (almost).
on top of that, the demand for these goods is constant, if not on a continuous rise. to have to go out and rebuild all these factories would take too long, cause a sharp rise in goods due to supply/demand, and add even more $ on top of that because the greedy investors would demand an almost immediate ROI.
you figure it out.
I agree with you... its all about the bottom dollar and maximizing profit. I think that this is a flaw with a capitalist market... its all about the dollar first and the employee second. This outsourcing effects all businesses...because I work in advertising and one of our competitors outsource ad design to India.
Now I have nothing against people in these other countries... they are using outsourcing to lift them out of third-world status... but the problem I have is that on average CEO's make 600x more than their average employee. I think that corporate greed is why we have many of the economic problems we are facing today and in the past....
You'll have a company layoff 1000 workers, yet the CEO will still make $20 million that year, with an additional $5 million going into his retirement fund.
