The US company I worked for paid employees in Canada twice as much as Americans. In my region it was three times as much.
And the Canadian operation was very profitable.
Things are always more profitable when people are paid well. History proved that point, when Unions were strong and people were paid a living progressive wages, "everything in America" profited and prospered, because the people had their earned income to expend, and currency would then circulate in and through communities and areas several times, thus creating value for the community and area as it moved to new areas to circulate.
Places like Sweden, know if they pay their people well, their people expend their money and invest their money in what makes their environments and systems and operations and business prosper and as a result their nation prospers.
Dried up small rural towns are classic example of what happens to business when people in the community can't earn and don't earn enough to patronize the business that exist... and what results is the business close and the town itself teeters on the brink of failure.
The problem in many of such rural town, is the "old heads from the past" who get in the way and fight against progress, growth and change... while the town withers and lingers on the brink of demise.
China, uplifted more than 300--400 million people out of "dire poverty" and that also means there are 300-400 million people who can now purchase and consume some of what China produces. More and more people they uplift and the better that uplift is in earned income, the more China can count on its own internal consumerism to enhance its GDP.
Ignorance and Racist Stupidity and Executive and Corporate Greed has cost America to lose 50 yrs of Growth Potential. If we look at these same factors and go back 100 yrs, we will be amazed at the what such Ignorance and Stupidity that form of White Nationalist Insanity has cost this nation and its people.
America goes about the world "denigrating nations that concern itself with uplifting its people", then it goes into killing leaders who demonstrate that it can be done. It wants no examples that it can't infect with its Colonialism and White Nationalist Agenda.
Today... Nation's are moving on from that and not allowing it to come in and damage their society or their growth and as they grow, they learn how to make liberal reforms for their people and their society.
These Nation know they can't change overnight, but they also know they can't advance themselves with the values they hold if they allow white nationalist colonialism and it's imperialist principle to come in and infect their system and its processes.
Look around ... Nation to Nation and Collections of Nations are making "Mutual Benefit Cooperative Agreements"... they are no longer taking money from Colonizers to build their systems of infrastructure where they before had to give the Colonizers influence over their politics.
They will gain more independence from such Imperialistic Colonizers as things like the AIIB and Other International Growth Promoting, Models are created.
America had better awaken and start paying people a living wage,
to set the stage for new growth and new methods which helps keep American currency with value, built and supported by American people who create and build, and make our system strong in being a performer in productions, service, and commerce's within, as well as quality in our ability to export effectively within Global System. BECAUSE as the Arab's of Saudi already know... the Petro Dollar is not something that will have the power in the new age of Renewable Energy. They realized more than a decade or so that they have to diversity their economy to not be dependent solely on oil. If we'd been paying attention would would understand that, but America is afflicted with the blindness of Greed for Today, that it can't see beyond Today's obsessions of Greed.
Therefore, Fact and Truth is: America has to become productive, better educated, more innovative and uplift and modernize to make use of the latest in technology and be prepared to upgrade with the advances in tech's continual developments. It must invest in educating the young and doing so where there is no financial burden that diminishes the student who has learned the skills, information, trade and profession, and without the burden of debt, these same young people will create and build amazing things. Our Government has to be willing to support them by making a system where they can get funding, vial grants, loans and via the banking system without prohibitive interest rates.
We if we were and are away, don't have time for Party Partisan Ignorance of Republicanism declaration to block, tackle and try to defeat and deny anything and everything.
