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Microsoft, the software maker, reported profit of $1.9 billion. Does the more pro business environment of the US translate not only into more profits for Microsoft, but more jobs? Or are the rich just getting richer?
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I encourage everyone to never purchase a Microsoft product, instead copy it or download it from kazaa.
I'm not sure it's a reason for high unemployment in IT, their are many reasons for that, it's not just the IT Industry where this is happening.
This is complicated and confusing.
I think if they're gonna employ people in India then they should be forced (quite rightly ) to pay them the same wage, that would soon stop them doing it.
The convention would stipulate that multinationals would heceforth be required to give a significant percentage of the revenues they exploit from society back to those societies they operate in. This would have to be in measurable and concrete ways that benefit the social, economic and environmental development of those areas.
The penalty for merely paying lip service to such responsibility would be a concerted freeze on that company's access to both US and European markets (which make up the bulk of most multinationals' profit base) until such time as they demonstrated compliance.
additional trade conditions needed would be a safeguard against wholesale workforce reduction merely to enhance profits, which would begin with applying the japanese model of capping the remuneration packages for senior execs and CEOs.
If CEOs werent being paid such ungodly sums into the millions of dollars, there would be more than enough money to maintain workers at lower echelons of the corporate scale.
all in all we need a fundamental rethink of our corporate culture which forces corporateions to be about more than the "bottom line". They must be a force for equitable and constructive enhancement of society, since society provides them with the befits they enjoy.
very big news here on that all year and it probably has affected how many people are going to put their money into stock....espspecially when often CEO's who lost their company millions still got paid bonuses in many cases.
Well Mr. Gates can reinvest that money if he chooses, as well as give it to the company's shareholders of course.
Average wages differ from country to country.
Foreign companies may pay Indian workers a good wage by Indian standards.
Companies that do such things should be heavily penalised by the government.
That would nip this practice in the bud right quick and force the corporate world to completely rethink its greed driven ethos in favour of one which is more constructive and humanocentric.
So?
If that foreign investment was coming here you wouldn't complain would you............
Perhaps if the CEOs of the companies that engage in such practices were kicked out of their jobs (some would suggest put against a wall and shot) others would think twice before putting greed and profits before people.
One of the reasons that foreign investment increased in the UK under Thatcher was the fact that British workers were then (on average) paid lower than on the continent.
Steps must be taken so such moves are not repeated in the future.