Re:Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives and Why ...
by rocqua on Sunday August 11, 2019 @05:48PM
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Sure, Chinese wages grow a lot faster than Western ones.
At the same time, Western wages remain quite a bit higher than Chinese ones.
Dropping wages in the West would bring a lot of extra work, at the same time, that work would be paying less. The core thing here is that cost of living, and hence a living wage in the West is higher than in e.g. China. Due to globalization, companies can now arbitrage that difference.
Dropping wages in the West would bring a lot of extra work, at the same time, that work would be paying less. The core thing here is that cost of living, and hence a living wage in the West is higher than in e.g. China. Due to globalization, companies can now arbitrage that difference.