Originally Posted by
Uplinker
I don’t understand why the software issue is/was so difficult. In the USA they have all the software expertise of Silicon Valley; e.g, Apple etc. So why - if it is true - did Boeing use cheap freelance software writers, and not tap into the excellent home grown talent they have?
Because Shareholders and Senior Management are not paid enough and Workers are paid too much.
That has been the Corporate mantra in the USA and elsewhere for about 40 years now and everyone should know and understand what has been and is going on.
In brief - productivity rises every year due to human ingenuity, in the USA over 40 years ordinary workers have seen
NONE of the benefit of that.
ALL of the benefit has gone to a tiny proportion of the population.
You may think that is a good thing or otherwise but at least understand it.
Something else occurred in the period from the second world war until about 1980. Productivity rose similarly, however more or less everyone benefited from it.
Edited to add :-
Try Nick Hanauer's two TED talks.
Reviews of - Piketty is the author of the best-selling book
Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), or of course read it.
In no special order :-
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...rever-can-they
David Cay Johnston
The Impact of American Inequality
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/201...ew-gilded-age/
https://www.ted.com/talks/nick_hanau...rd?language=en
https://www.ted.com/talks/nick_hanau...xt?language=en
None of these people are crazy.