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Article calls FedEx " The Wal-Mart of the trucking industry"
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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 862687" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Actually, dude, if you do a search on this forum for China, or narrow it down by using Brazil, you'll see that I wrote exactly what you are citing. But today we are faced with alot of barriers our predecessors weren't. Large corporations control more than half the workforce now, a much larger % than in the 50's. Manufacturing is a much smaller sector of our economy now. Service industries are now 80% of our economy. Manufacturing only 14%. Part of the blame is corporate greed. Part is union excesses. Part is government overregulation. Much is foreign competition. The world has changed. But does that mean the American worker has to accept a minimal existence so that others can do well and some extremely well? Our CEO's make over 400 times what their average employees make. In other industrialized nations CEO's average 15 to 52 times more, depending on the country. There seems to be a recognition in other countries that everyone does well when everyone has a stake in the outcome. Anymore in the States it seems to be winner takes all, and we should feel lucky we have a job. Not all is bad here, not all is good elsewhere. But it does seem that we're going the wrong direction. If it has always been this way, how come in the late 80's a newhire at FedEx could feel he had a future if he did his part? And why are so many newhires leaving quickly now?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 862687, member: 24302"] Actually, dude, if you do a search on this forum for China, or narrow it down by using Brazil, you'll see that I wrote exactly what you are citing. But today we are faced with alot of barriers our predecessors weren't. Large corporations control more than half the workforce now, a much larger % than in the 50's. Manufacturing is a much smaller sector of our economy now. Service industries are now 80% of our economy. Manufacturing only 14%. Part of the blame is corporate greed. Part is union excesses. Part is government overregulation. Much is foreign competition. The world has changed. But does that mean the American worker has to accept a minimal existence so that others can do well and some extremely well? Our CEO's make over 400 times what their average employees make. In other industrialized nations CEO's average 15 to 52 times more, depending on the country. There seems to be a recognition in other countries that everyone does well when everyone has a stake in the outcome. Anymore in the States it seems to be winner takes all, and we should feel lucky we have a job. Not all is bad here, not all is good elsewhere. But it does seem that we're going the wrong direction. If it has always been this way, how come in the late 80's a newhire at FedEx could feel he had a future if he did his part? And why are so many newhires leaving quickly now? [/QUOTE]
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