Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Quarter 2: Assignment 2: Kristin Carosotto (Robert Owen)
Why ship workers over seas when we, as the country of Britain, have plenty of resources and workers to get the job done here? We obtain a surplus natural resources that run this industrial revolution, and there is no need for any more. Also, shipping workers over seas would just put stress on the economic stability of Britain. Not only would we have to play for the long journeys overseas for the workers, we would also have to pay for the shipment of the goods back to Britain. With these expenses there would also be no substantial gain other than lowering wages which are already incredibly low. If one were to look at the pros and cons of this situation the cons would outweigh the pros by a whole spinning jenny. Shipping workers over seas would be one of Britain's worst decisions. It is just not logical to go and collect resources form another country when there is already enough in your own country and not gaining anything substantial from it. Having workers solely in this country has benefited us greatly so far so I do not see any point of changing our methods in the near future.
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David Ricardo (Maria Nunez)
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, we would not be shipping people overseas. We would be shipping jobs overseas. I agree that this is not the best decision but for different reasons. I believe that the size of families must decrease. They should not have children they cannot afford to have. The more children they have, the less they can spend on every single one of them. It is not so much a question of how much people are being paid but how they are choosing to spend their money.