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Re: Bummer of the Week: LEGO Made in China
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Sat, 8 Sep 2001 21:54:57 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dennis Williamson writes:
Countries with few jobs don't make good customers for our goods.

Dennis

In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Greg Perry writes:
[snip]
economics, I (like all the other horrid, selfish Americans) fail to
understand why it is "good" that jobs be eliminated in this country and
moved to other countries.

[snip]

Thanks Dennis - that's actually a very good point (in my opinion).  Not to
continue on with the "debate" but I think that some would respond to your
assertion by asking why it has to be existing jobs that are moved instead of
simply creating new jobs.  Obviously though there's only a limited number of
jobs that the overall world economy needs so I guess at some point there
would need to be a redistribution of the work.

I don't want to get involved in some advanced economics discussion because
I'm even less qualified to pretend to speak intelligently on that subject
than I am on the others that have been raised in this thread.

Let's just leave it at my "thanks" and I can add your comment to all the
others that have given me a lot to think about in the last couple of days.

G.



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  Re: Bummer of the Week: LEGO Made in China
 
Countries with few jobs don't make good customers for our goods. Dennis In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Greg Perry writes: [snip] (...) [snip] (23 years ago, 7-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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