Message-ID: <AMyMlHtOW7@mb.sorostm.ro> Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 18:21:48 +0400 From: Florin Jurcovici <mailto:fljurcovici@MB.SOROSTM.RO> Subject: Re: Boring To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
I agtree with the article called "Boring" in almost every point. Im am not well prepared in economy, international relations or other stuff like this, but I would like to ask some questions. Altough the expected answer might be seen in some questions, the questions are asked in order to get some asnwer - the problems really trouble me.1. How come work in the less developed countries is (much) less well payed than in the develped ones? For instance, a foreign firm built a factory in Romania. their emplyees are payed about 2-3 times better than those in romanian firms, but also about 10 (ten) times less than workers in the country from were the firm came to Romania. The products of the firm are brought to market exclusively in western-european countries, Asia or the USA. It is true, the money people earn in this factory are contributing to the wellness of the romanian society, but if everything is done at the same quality level, why don't people get the same salary? This situation is the same for all foreign investors. Besides, referring to the local politic context, foreign firms or joint ventures have far more favourable financial legal conditions than romanian firms, so what do You see fair in this payment difference between romanian workers and foreign workers?
2. I figured out that the economy of several western european states has difficulties. I have a theory about this. I think the western european workers gained through time a better average sallary level because in earlier times only western Europe produced several high quality products, having something like a monopol on some classes of products. for instance, if you buy a Mercedes, several years earlier it might have been a better car than those fabricated in Japan, for instance, so during time this sort of products came to be over-evaluated. Now, however, more and more producers do the same things at the same quality level as western european producers, but at lower prices, so western european producers cannot get the same prices anymore. As a consequence, workers cannot get the same high sallaries. from here, in my opinion, some of the economical problems of the developed states derive. Am I right or wrong?
Romanian popular wisdom says that if a fool throughs a stone into the water, 10 clever people won't be able to get it out. I allready said, I might be considered a fool regarding the sort of questions I asked.
-- Jurcovici Florin mailto:fljurcovici@mb.sorostm.ro