Yes obviously its an exaggeration I thought thats fairly simple to understand given that it's a high amount of money that a very small amount of people actually earn, but the point remains. The point being that too many people expect to earn a wage far higher than their job economically deserves whilst doing little to no work or putting in little effort to achieve it.

People expect far too much for nothing, too many think they should just sit on their $@! and get everything they want for doing sweet FA.

Of course I know a lot of people here are smarter than that and I certainly am not pointing the finger at anyone here.

Just a little history that might clarify the reasoning for all this. In the 80s and 90s, cash rich guys named corporate raiders bought profitable companies in the US. They did not keep them as an investment, they gutted them of all cash, including retirees pensions, and shut them down. This same greed, with no thought of the workers, is apparent with shutting down profitable companies in the US, and moving them out of the country so they can make more profit. These people think nothing of their country or of it's people. It's not even about money. It is just greed.

Think the thing that irk's the average guy is why China, you know what I mean, we were fed all the communist bogey man for as long as I can remember and now it seems they couldn't beat a path there quick enough, I know we've always had the bottom of the rung stuff imported mostly but just lately it seems as though companies are almost being pushed in that direction, are we so heavily in debt to china that they call the tune these days and is our own goverment actively promoting it all, seems odd to me that hands are now rubbed together to help them out

Nice post and pertinent points. In relation to the points you raise yes western companies are breaking their necks to relocate all their work to China because they can get it done dirt cheap, for now. But we'll see if that holds up in the future.

Remember also, and this is something western governments have conveniently ignored, because it suits their pockets, this is a regime that brutalised a bunch of protesting students in Tianaman Square. Now that that's in the not so dim and distant path, greedy companies can now forget all about the human rights violations that go on there, in their ever growing appetite for cheap labour. All the while detracting from the job markets in the US and the UK when companies pull the plug and move there.

Yes they all slate the Communist idea but a few weeks ago the EU, in the dire straits it's in, were pleading to China for money to ease the debt crisis! remember that? All the violations forgotten about because the balance of power is shifting and they hold the purse strings.

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Luck won't do it and ignorance can't

George Van Eps.

It's going to take another 25 years before the Chinese will have human rights and labour unions. Until then, our economy will go down the drain. In 25 years, production will move to some other region in the world where labour is cheap and people can be exploited easily. This is the age of globalization.

Cheers

David

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"Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc...and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons."

i dont like the fact that my AC30 is made in china but it sounds great


its all about how much money a company is willing to spend to get its build quality to be relatively good

Why not build your own AC-30 from a commercial kit?