I think you need to see all sides. I left the farm in 1958, enlisted in the Navy, grew up as a peon in a large company and in 15 years went on to be a Project Manager, general Manager and Vice President (I have no degree) I went on to be President and COO of a 100 million dollar national company and then back to Project Management of DOE remediation projects running over 100 Million bucks, all the while maintaining my quals as a welder and electrician. I am now 69 and running a constuction project in Ohio. Do I enjoy this work? Darn right. Do I have great workers? Darn right! Do they get treated well and paid good? Darn right! (We, as a team, get rid of any bad workers, and they are very few) Have I had big bonus'? Darn right! Have I bid/won profitable projects? Yep, and my team reaped the rewards of more work. Have I worked with lazy or bad executives? Yes, but not very many.
I agree that we can't compete with China's wages but I don't agree that it's one sided. Our government has almost no business experience and has made very poor choices...they spent my social security, your medicare dollars, encouraged the "no down payment" for people who couldn't afford homes in the first place, my home town has unfunded liabilities of 90 million bucks for retirees in that community, on and on. Who did they think was going to pay for that? I don't think it's any one issue, worker, management, greed, etc, any more than I think it's our own ELECTED officials!
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