General Long term Erosion of Contract market

[BlasterBates]

23 things they don't tell you about capitalism

ah one of those "23 things they don't tell you about capitalism so I can now push my socialist eco agenda".

"earn more than we deserve" - of course we're like locusts aren't we.

I don't want live in a straw hut waiting for the wind generator to spin so I can make a cup of coffee.

[Ignis Fatuus]

I was reading a book titled "23 things they don't tell you about capitalism".

The author argued there that in western world, people are paid more than they deserve! So the high wage is an inflated level. Just like house price, it will come down. This inflated wage is only possible because of immigration control. If the control is lifted (which is mostly the case with UK), the influx of migrant workers will bring down the wage.

Let's be honest, an average local candidate does not offer any more capability than an average migrant IT pro.

This high wage is only possible because of immigration control. If the control is lifted (which is mostly the case with UK), the influx of migrant workers will bring down the wage.

That does not mean that the wage is inflated. It is perfectly possible for, say, the UK market to be run separately from, say, the India market. Then the UK market wage will not be the the same as the India market wage. There is no special reason why that situation should automatically mean that the only thing to do is to combine the 2 markets, if the 2 markets are kept separate, there is no special reason why the UK market wage should be the same as the India market wage.

[Fred Bloggs]

Philips Semiconductors (now defunct) was like the United Nations.

Where I'm currently working also fits that description, it shall remain nameless though.

[oliverson]

It makes me laugh when people play the race/BNP card when somebody is concerned about the level of immigration and consequences in this country, a very small island. That's the reason this 'great' country isn't so great anymore.

If I look around and see dark faces and/or foreign broken-English accents it's not racist to assume these people aren't the indigenous population is it? So, whilst 'natives' are sat on the bench and this lot are in effect taking their jobs, I feel it only right to speak out.

What galls me the most is that good people gave their lives in world war I and II to safeguard Britain yet in recent times we are giving the place away drip-by-drip. It's a cancer for which there is no cure.

[Spacecadet]

It makes me laugh when people play the race/BNP card when somebody is concerned about the level of immigration and consequences in this country, a very small island. That's the reason this 'great' country isn't so great anymore.

If I look around and see dark faces and/or foreign broken-English accents it's not racist to assume these people aren't the indigenous population is it? So, whilst 'natives' are sat on the bench and this lot are in effect taking their jobs, I feel it only right to speak out.

What galls me the most is that good people gave their lives in world war I and II to safeguard Britain yet in recent times we are giving the place away drip-by-drip. It's a cancer for which there is no cure.

Jesus ******* christ

Get your head out of the ******* daily mail and try actually spending some time in the parts of the country which you don't inhabit.

Great Britain is the 15th Largest island in the world, only the south east is "crowded" the rest of it has great expanses of open green. Thankfully twats like you rarely leave whatever inner city pub you inhabit to pollute the rest of the country with your bile

[Barley]

Boo bloody hoo. Protectionism is never a good way to run an economy and why should the government step in to save your job? Nobody owes you an £800/day contract, or even a £15k job. Life's what you make of it and there's no point moaning; either shape up and move with the market, or get out.

Always makes me laugh when people moan about work going abroad, no doubt such people dont have an issue when they buy their Koreen TV, German Car, Electricity from foreign owned company etc..

We're living in a global economy, accept it.

[Ignis Fatuus]

We're living in a global economy, accept it.

Why?

[doodab]

Always makes me laugh when people moan about work going abroad, no doubt such people dont have an issue when they buy their Koreen TV, German Car, Electricity from foreign owned company etc..

We're living in a global economy, accept it.

To be fair, they don't have a choice about that either do they?

Personally, I don't see that the consequences of globalization should be blindly accepted without questioning or complaint.

[AnthonyQuinn]

To be fair, they don't have a choice about that either do they?

Personally, I don't see that the consequences of globalization should be blindly accepted without questioning or complaint.

People working in the UK desperately need globalisation. The UK is too small to domestically sustain the standard of living that we are used to.

[doodab]

People working in the UK desperately need globalisation. The UK is too small to domestically sustain the standard of living that we are used to.

True enough. The days of a nation being able to rely solely on domestic agricultural and industrial production are long gone. But that doesn't mean that we should blindly accept everything that happens from this point on, because an awful lot of things are decided by human beings and we have the power; and arguably a duty, to question and influence their decisions.