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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by willravel
I suspect many members have similar stories, I certainly do.
The idea would be that the person who is capable, rained, and with experience won't lose his job to an Indian kid. It has a lot more to do with the market being monitored so as to protect workers from bosses who would drop even good, productive workers to save a buck. Socialism means that these things can be monitored and even prevented more. It's about sharing economic responsibility between the government and the companies. In a free market, no one can prevent outsourcing, really.
I'm not sure where younger people entered the equation, but if an employee can prove him or herself, the company should be loyal to them, regardless of age.
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In some cases what you describe already happens vis a vie the Union models. That form of labor is quite expensive and costs alot to the union member as well. But they are protected from many things that non-union members are not like layoffs, summary dismissals, etc. But there, people pay into a system, they have tiers for tenure.
Now in that system, I don't see them working their asses off, they walk slower, they react slower, they move with little desire. All because they know they are protected and that there is due process to remove them and/or their position.
For me to get a worker reduction in my building I have to petition the Union in order to do so, it can take years to do it and at considerable cost. Unfair I say in the capitalist model that is elsewhere. We have need for a workforce reduction and you just do it.
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