| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Nordic countries (LONG) |
| Date: | Fri, 1 May 1998 11:41:04 +0100 |
> > Because it's an out-of-the-way place?
>
> And then pay double the shipping expenses, I belive that nobody would
> build anything in Denmark. Right now everybody (read: danish
> companies) are moving their productions to other contries.
That's not because of high shipping expenses. If oyu look at the stuff
that gets imported, you can deduce that shipping often costs next to
nothing.
The reason corps today are moving away from Europe is because we have
people who want to be well-paid for the work they deliver, in addition to
all kinds of other demands. Moving factories to South-East Asia is cheaper
in the end, because with the same money, they can pay many more people to
do the same labor for longer periods and still sell the products for the
same price, if not cheaper, in Europe.
> > Because there's a large number of people there who want to work in
> your factory?
>
> Off course I can't speak for the future generations, but today the
> Danes require far to much money in comparrison to other contries,
> that's one of the reasons to why Corps are moving.
Yes, and if all the corps move away, the result will be massive
unemployment, and since most people don't like being unemployed, they'll
take any job they can get -- if a corp moves a factory back to such a
place, it would likely find lots of people willing to work in factories
they wouldn't have twenty years before.
> > Because there's oil under the North Sea?
>
> Not in 2050, by that time (if I'm not much wrong) much of it (all of
> it?) will be gone.
If we keep pumping it up at the rate we are now, yes. But what if the
storm of 2008 (or whenever it was) swept away the drilling platforms?
> As you pointed out, there's plenty of reasons. It was just that some
> of those mentioned seemed somewhat weak...
YOU are the Scandinavian around here, not me :) I took about two minutes
to come up with some stuff that sounded semi-plausible...
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