The Four Hour Work Week was a book that promised the small business owner would have more freedom and be able to work from any where. Here's what the corporations did with it. They used it as the perfect excuse to save money and increase shareholders profits.
Congress spun it as a bill that would benefit developed and undeveloped countries by putting the workers on an equal playing field as far as pay. The reality is that it took developed countries and made the workers have to go backwards in pay. The workers have to work 2 and 3 jobs to make up for the pay that they lost as they watched their jobs walk or run out the door to overseas workers.
Most people in undeveloped countries are living on $20 to $30 a month. There is no worker in a developed country that can compete with that. These workers are graduates with bachelors or masters and some even have PhD's. These are highly educated people that have loans to pay back for the promise of a better life that these degrees were guarantees for.
In walks the greed of congress and the corporations that forget that it is these very workers that made those profits possible. Without people having a decent standard of living the taxes start to stop coming in. Without people making a decent living you have no consumers. It is very much like the parable of the person who killed the "Golden Goose" so they could supposedly have all the gold at once. They soon realized too late that without the goose there were no longer any golden eggs.
Penny J
Raven Hawke, Llc (MN, USA)
www.ravenhawke.net
info@ravenhawke.net
