Quote:
Originally Posted by dbotsfordtat
I've said it before and I'll say it again; The free market is a figment of the imagination created by those that enjoy an unfair advantage and wish to maintain it.
|
I'm screenshoting this one. I agree, but no-one could expect it 10 or even 5 yrs ago to read such statement on american forum filled with fans of truly american things (i.e. muscle cars).
As for the topic -- I have quite a different perspective (hailing from Europe), but you can't call free market nor unions "evil". Most of these ideas work great as long as they're not abused.
Now, labor unions not allowing an almost-bankrupt (bought for government, i.e. yours, pals, money) company to make a small cut in wages, especially given the fact that workers are already over-priviledged (salaries, social benefits) compared to car factories of other companies, and not even mentioning tendency to offshore production -- well that seems like an abuse of the idea of labor union.
French companies were using (and still use) a very simple (but kind of brutal and assymetric) statement: either you -- unions -- agree to small lowering of worker priviledges, or we shut down the whole plant and move the production to China.
Sorry guys, but these are tough times and everybody has to participate if we're to get out of it.
Also: why "don't pick on working class" when we're talking about simple greed?