Reply #13: code [View All]

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He lied, of course. He didn't have the nerve to say the obvious. Low skilled workers, that would be 70% of workers, need to learn how to get by on lower pay. Much much much lower pay.

If workeers here could be trained to get by on $50 a month like Chineese workers then there wouldn't be all this moaning about stinking jobs. Al's "productivity miracle' starts and ends with lower wages.

When listening to this stuff remember this simple rule to decode what is being said. Productivity increase means lower wages. Retrained means lower wages. This code has been used successfully in order to make the economic realtites of the global economy palatable to voters. One may even agree that 'free trade' necessitates lower wages in the US and that this is a good thing. The thing is that voters in a democracy won't buy it. (Which is one reason why democracy will die) The main thing is that NOBODY can say out loud that lower wages for the majority are the ultimate result of these economic trends, for obvious reasons. To do so would be political suicide.

Being facetious I might suggest that workers learn phrases like "yes massa" or 'no massa' or if the boss let's you take a break in the shade with some watermelon on a hot summer day use 'this shore is libbin boss', to successfully integrate into the new order.