[Elecraft] Where R made ? "Power Pole"

[Jozef Hand-Boniakowski]

I must chime in a bit.  If workers were not pitted one against the 
other, and if they received the same renumeration for their wage-power 
everywhere, then they would not be exploited.  Some may rest content 
that their consumer products are produced in slave like conditions.  I 
do not.  The CEOs on the other hand, receive obscene wages for what they 
actually produce: very little or nothing.  It's not that "Laborers in 
the US and the UK do not necessarily do a job that is enough better to 
justify a higher wage than someone in India or China", rather, it's that 
one group can be easily exploited and the other cannot.  For the time 
being, anyway.  Next on the neo-liberal agenda: outsourcing CEOs to Rwanda!

Jozef WB2MIC


Brian Lloyd wrote:
> On Jun 10, 2007, at 8:10 AM, Julian G4ILO wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, by the time we're all out of work or employed in the
>> tourist industry looking after the Chinese on their holidays, it will
>> be too late to realise the folly of seeing no further than bigger
>> profits and lower prices.
>
> We live in a global economic market and the formula is simple: make a 
> better product for the same price or the same quality product for a 
> lower price. People of the western world for the most part have an 
> over-inflated estimate of the value of their labor. . Want more money 
> and/or more business? Learn to do something that has more value in the 
> market.
>
> And, yes, it *is* about bigger profits and lower prices. But it is 
> also about creating new things too.
>
> There are exceptional people who do the groundbreaking work. They 
> cannot be replaced by a generic college graduate with a master's 
> degree or a PhD no matter how 'learned' the latter are. These are not 
> the people working for big companies. The goal is to find the few 
> people who are in this creative class and work with them to create new 
> things. Once the designs are well established you can turn them over 
> to a generic PhD EE.
>
> BTW, the reason everyone here likes the Elecraft products is that 
> Elecraft consists of a collection of that small group of people in 
> that exceptional category, i.e. the people who really think and make 
> new things.
>
> 73 de Brian, WB6RQN
> Brian Lloyd - brian HYPHEN wb6rqn AT lloyd DOT com
>
>
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