How a call girl can earn far more by actually working far less

Re:How a call girl can earn far more by actually working far... by loewenskind on Thursday August 26, 2010 @08:14AM (#1635704)

Completely wrong. If that were the case then the cost of developing 10k cheap electronic gadgets would be the same in the US vs. China. The US workers would cost more but make more in the same time.

This is not the case at all. The Chinese can produce vastly more items than the US can for the same price/time. Do you have any examples where some US company can produce things as such an improved production speed compared to China?

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Re:How a call girl can earn far more by actually working far... by eru on Thursday August 26, 2010 @08:51AM (#1635769)

You are right that richer countries are not more productive in all sectors. E.g. a Swiss hair cut won't be as superior to a Somalian one, as the differences in wages suggest.

My guts tell me that the US is more productive than China in, say, software development and probably finance. But don't trust my guts. Do some research yourself.

A quick search for "productivity US china" turned up "U.S. Leads Productivity Ranking; China Gains" (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/04/business/worldbusiness/04o...).

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Re:How a call girl can earn far more by actually working far... by loewenskind on Friday August 27, 2010 @05:47AM (#1638375)

One has to be careful how one measures these things. It's easy to get into tautology land ("Who is more productive? The more expensive one. How do you know they're more productive? Because they're more expensive").

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Re:How a call girl can earn far more by actually working far... by eru on Friday August 27, 2010 @04:29PM (#1640139)

Indeed. Though if you can compete on the world market and be more expensive, there's got to be something to justify that.

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