10-12-2008, 08:09 PM
Quote:What is that calculation proving? I can do the same; one person makes 10 widgets per hour for 100$ and in another country the makes 5 an hour for 1$/pph So that means 10 widget vs 500 widgets.What I'm saying is the due to a pretty constant consumer price for a widget, industrial nations, in order to compete with cheap labor are forced to produce more widgets with less labor. For example, we still make automobiles in the US. In order to do so, we must be doing more with less. Otherwise, they would all be made in areas with lower labor costs. Making circuit boards however is expensive when you need to worry about reclamation of toxic waste, so we don't do much of that in the US.