Re: how to innovate the stage equipment


"Colin" <colin10021@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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But by using the self check out does eliminate jobs doesn't it? Is that a
good thing??? Sure the company can "trim the fat" but at what cost?
What's to become of that senior citizen who may loose that job? That
senior citizen who is already living on a very fixed income and needs that
job to buy meds? Or that student from a low income family who needs those
few minimum wage bucks to buy text books? Surely those concerns don't
mean communistic concerns. Please answer each of those questions my
friend who cares more about their fellow man then the bottom line?
Yes, you are right about that. When a machine can do the job
as well or better than a machine, then the machine will win.
In fact people have to be able to do a job much better than
the machine if they want to keep their jobs.

I think health care benefits packages were a big mistake. When
a doctor had to bill the patient for services there was a direct
connection. If a doctor was gouging, you would find another.
Then insurance companies got in the middle that connection
was lost. Once people had "insurance" they wanted to be
treated for "everything imaginable", without being charged for
it. After all, they were paying for the insurance. Then along came
benefits packages, and the union wanted to decide what kind of
insurance their members had to be given, and the sky is the limit.
The insurance companies were licking their lips, so to speak.
People now expect that they will be taken care of no matter
what the expense, after all, their company pays the insurance,
and they are all just a bunch of fat pigs anyway. Right?

Unions must have competition or they get out of control like
anything else that has no competition. What would you have to
pay for groceries if there was only one grocery store? Either
you would get the government to step in, or just get groceries
added to your benefits package. Steaks for everybody, for "free".

Everything has a cost, even if it is hidden. For a while movie
theaters had to pay a union guy to open the curtain before a
movie, even though the union guy in the booth was doing all
of his work by pushing the button clearly marked "OPEN".

I know of at least one elevator repair guy that really doesn't
even try to get his jobs done during normal hours because
he gets paid so much better once he hits overtime. If he
wasn't in the union that story might be different.

unions could have been a good thing if they could only exist
in a competitive labor market. Everybody needs competition.

David




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