[quote=The-Shoveler]flu most of that has to do with scale, but yea I remember paying 3K for a Slow POS PC with one 40Meg hard drive back in the day (but is was made in America LOL).
The lower end of the wage scale has really lagged behind and suffered the last 20 or so years, so there needs to be some leveling IMO.
They are not going to manufacture I-Pads here anytime soon regardless.
You give a low wage earner a little more money he will spend it, you give the CEO a few million more bucks he will put it in a tax shelter somewhere.
(or maybe buy a NY condo).[/quote]
I think some things have to be done for wages on the low end.. But just pointing out that eventually, everything will most likely shift to fewer people working, even when wages do go up….
Looks what is happening right now in grocery stores. You have 1 cashier managing 4-5 self-service checkouts….
