Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mnetor.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!fred From: fred@mnetor.UUCP (Fred Williams) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: High Duties => Increased Competitiveness? Message-ID: <2214@mnetor.UUCP> Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 08:42:13 EDT Article-I.D.: mnetor.2214 Posted: Wed Sep 18 08:42:13 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 18-Sep-85 11:23:43 EDT References: <1394@utcsri.UUCP> <2188@mnetor.UUCP> <1395@utcsri.UUCP> <2197@mnetor.UUCP> <1397@utcsri.UUCP> Reply-To: fred@mnetor.UUCP (Fred Williams) Distribution: can Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lines: 20 Summary: In article <1397@utcsri.UUCP> peterr@utcsri.UUCP (Peter Rowley) writes: >Fred Williams suggest I want something for nothing if I want a freer trade >arrangement to provide for displaced employees. Not at all; I am willing >to pay for it with taxes. Retraining will surely cost far less in the >long run than welfare, anyway. Or do you advocate quiet elimination of >all those workers considered "obsolete"? > Actually, I was thinking of companies and managers being eliminated. The workers can always get hired by whoever takes over, of coarse this is not always true I'll admit. I rather like what you're saying now though, and I'm definitely supportive of productivity incentives, making employees partners in the business, and such things. I don't know about power sharing, this could be interpreted as administration by committee --- this would be creeping death for a company, economically speaking. -- Cheers, Fred Williams, UUCP: {allegra, linus, ihnp4}!utzoo!mnetor!fred BELL: (416)-475-8980 ext. 318