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Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation by colinmhayes on Friday December 17, 2021 @10:55AM (#29593878)
In the post war period the US was manufacturing goods for not just domestic use, but for the entire world. Pretty much all industrial capability was here in that period, so foreigners were forced to buy American goods. Those days are over and are never coming back. Most countries have their own industrial base now. There will never again be american employment in manufacturing like there was in the post war period, even if imports were completely banned.
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Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation by mc32 on Friday December 17, 2021 @11:30AM (#29594421)
It’s not only manufacturing though. And we don’t have to export to the world. We just need to support our own manufacturing and our own service workers.

My school janitors used to be able to send their kids to college and afford a humble house. Retail store clerks (Married with Children). All that is now cheap labor --you can't expect to pay a mortgage and send kids to college/uni. You may be able to afford the cheap apartment and beer --you'll probably end up with some addiction, i nthat situation.

These days that janitor is farmed out to some company that hires either cheap foreign labor or sometimes illegal labor. We see this in chicken processing plants too. And people wonder why the middle class is hollowed out. And why black and white working poor are sick and tired or corporate antics.

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Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation by subsubzero on Friday December 17, 2021 @12:31PM (#29595357)
agree, also look to the tech giants who practice outsourcing. 50%+ of Google's employees are contractors[1], imagine if they were all employees what a brighter future so many families would have and what a gigantic boost to the economy it would create.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/technology/google-temp-wo...

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Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation by colinmhayes on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:50PM (#29596540)
Why do Americans deserve jobs over foreigners who are willing to do them for less?
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Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation by mc32 on Friday December 17, 2021 @02:48PM (#29597452)
Every State has the obligation to look after its own citizens. Otherwise, we should organize into a state that will as no other state will look after us. Can I go to Brazil or Russia and say, hey Russia, hey Brazil, you know, I'm neither Russian nor Brazilian and I didn't contribute anything to your country nor my did my ancestors, but I'd like some of your pie.

Also, we can't cry "wages have been stagnant since the 70s" and also want to continue ex-patriating jobs and ability to command better pay.

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