Cloudane wrote:Bit uncomfortable with the "we need Polish people over here because we need some low paid people to clean the bogs" argument I've seen here and elsewhere. It has that slight air of slavery to it.
I want them over here because they have many talents, are doctors as well as nurses, etc.
That's more or less how I'd like to think it is, but I'm not sure whether that is what is real, maybe it is, I dunno.
And resolve the problem of no English people wanting to clean bogs (if said problem actually exists) ourselves.
That is a whole different can of worms. That's about how much profit there is in bog cleaning, and how to split those profits between the bosses and the workers. The bosses feel that if the workers don't feel put upon, the bosses aren't getting enough profit. It's argiably the case (but watch
pogo argue that it's not), that if the workers are better paid, they pay more taxes and buy more goods, so everybody has more stuff. However the rich don't care about how much they have, they only care about how much more as a percentage they have than the poor, and that percentage is biggest when the poor have almost nothing.
"My way is the way of not fighting":- the book of Enter the Dragon.