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RE: The coming of a new age!!!
mean old capitalists...they should pay those poor workers
(the ones that they've trained, the ones that they give benifits, vacation, healthcare to)
MORE!
or
get a workforce that is cheaper.
Getting a cheaper workforce is why jobs get outsourced to other countries.
As for training, they have to do that in order to get the production they need to produce the product. It has nothing to do with the worker, it's part of the company's overhead.
The benefits are part of the pay package, if you wish to get technical about it. However, the capitalist gives the least pay that it can get away with, it's the only way to keep the profit margin up. If they could pay less and keep workers, they would. This is all simple economics.
I don't know why it's so hard to understand this stuff. I suppose pre conceived notions and entrenched opinions tend to get in the way.
Cognitive Dissonance????
If you look at the dates on the chart, you can see that this trend started in the Reagan years.
exactly right.
very simple.
the reason a business exists is to make a profit for the owner.
if not...then the owner will use his money to do other things.
jobs are just a bonus...NOT the reason.
This is true, there's no point in having a business if it doesn't make a profit. Some business can be run without employees, some businesses require employees to do whatever the business does. Those jobs are not a bonus, they are how the product gets manufactured. Without people running the machines that make the parts, and people to assemble those parts, the product would not exist. Employees are a cost of doing business.
It really doesn't matter who the people are that do the jobs, as long as they can be taught to do the job. After having worked for 40 years as an employee, I can say with some confidence that employees are considered a wear item to the company. The company uses them up and throws them out. Replacements are easy to get, so they only pay the bare minumim that it takes to retain someone in that work field.
under the present day tax structure it would be stupid to do other wise wouldn't it? When businesses are stupid..they go OUT of business.
True, but sometimes they go out of business because they can't sell enough of what they make to turn a profit because not enough people have the extra money to spend that they used to have.