I've cum across many myself.andyinasia wrote:.... I've come across a lot of women with absentee barang boyfriends who are funding them - ...
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I've always thought it was "nothing ventured, no chance of losing."Peligroso wrote:Nothing ventured, nothng gained is my view on life. ...
"Offering employment and training opportunities greatly reduces the risk of social unrest due to idleness and poverty. It also offers a transition path for rural workers to acquire skills necessary for deployment in an urban environment. There are significant economic benefits for China as the wages paid filter through the broader economy. A multiplier effect will make this benefit much larger than the initial wages paid."
I don't know who wrote that in a relevant place, but he didn't have to suck too many dicks to be published!
Back to Moody Mac's point - I think your answer lies in realising that wages are rising in Cambodia, whether you want them to or not, whether you think it justified or not, or whether you even think you have control over the event. The economic reality is that the real wage will rise as a skills shortage grows.
For those who think at a lower level, a hooker who speaks even a little English will always command a higher price than a Khmer speaker when dealing with an English speaking "client"!
I don't know who wrote that in a relevant place, but he didn't have to suck too many dicks to be published!
Back to Moody Mac's point - I think your answer lies in realising that wages are rising in Cambodia, whether you want them to or not, whether you think it justified or not, or whether you even think you have control over the event. The economic reality is that the real wage will rise as a skills shortage grows.
For those who think at a lower level, a hooker who speaks even a little English will always command a higher price than a Khmer speaker when dealing with an English speaking "client"!
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I've been talking to a number of businesses (mainly agriculturally based) operating in Kompong Speu and I'm building up a fuller picture. Bear in mind that the province has amongst the least fertile soil and poorest rainfall patterns in the country, resulting in generally poor agricultural output. What I'm seeing is that across the board businesses are struggling to attract unskilled workers. I was aware that a very high proportion of females get jobs in the garment industry, but I see now that a very high proportion of males go to the city to seek and find unskilled labouring jobs such as motodops, construction and so on.Peligroso wrote:"Offering employment and training opportunities greatly reduces the risk of social unrest due to idleness and poverty. It also offers a transition path for rural workers to acquire skills necessary for deployment in an urban environment.
Before some trolls returns to make the same tiresome accusations, I'll just briefly mention that our recruitment drive was very successful; in common with the other businesses, we can't compete with city salaries, or those of multinational industries such as the textile sector, but the staff are very happy with the working conditions and personal treatment.
My main point is that we have a worrying situation for a country that is heavily dependent on the agricultural sector - businesses trying to boost farmers' incomes are struggling to persuade rural people to continue farming. I'm personally engaging with companies trying to invest in the rural sector, trying to reduce the urban drift and improve agricultural efficiency. Their intention is to work with farmers to grow more valuable produce and find markets for them, thus increasing the farmers' incomes. However, they can't just throw wads of cash at farmers so that they are paid more highly than city jobs.
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I am just suprised no one has yet seen the Viz angle on this or perhaps I am the lone fan, awash in an erudite sea of more edumacated souls ?MoodyMac wrote:, but his big balls will get tangled in the seat belt and he will be trapped.
That aside, I have only ever owned and operated an SME in Aus (60 staff), a country where market forces in regards wages have mostly fallen by the wayside (which is why we have no industry left, most everything that can be outsourced has been ).
Very interesting thread, my partner has just taken a position where she will be be the Operations Manager of 4 Khmer staff and have some control over the remittance, so I will direct her to this thread. Prior to this she has worked as one of a few comparatively overpaid "barang" in a bevy of Khmer's.
Nearly all employers are regarded thusly. Some quote about leading a thousand men to their death in a battle sees you admired and leading 1000 men in work sees you reviled, springs to mind. I still remember taking all my staff and their spouses to Christmas dinner and while chatting to one of the spouses advised me "I fucken' hate all employers, the're scum, rippin' us workers off"...(I possible paraphrase as it was a few years ago, but you get the gist) he continued to eat the chicken wings I had paid for though ... shrug... apparently his moral outrage didn't extend to knocking back a free meal from his wifes "scumbag employer".andyinasia wrote: This image people have created of me running over poor people in a Lexus like some (er, anachronistic) Victorian capitalist is so far off the mark it pisses me off, especially if they knew my values and background - which I won't bother to share on this forum given some of the reactions.
Ironically, The Unions in Australia (let alone the general populous) would NEVER go for labour mobility. The capitalist pigs in charge have been calling for freeing up labour mobility for decades, the Unions rail against it, there is a reason they can demand $100K plus for some unskilled labour positions, restrict supply. Perhaps the Union altruism in this case is a little feigned, as it only extends to the geographic border and no further.Peligroso wrote:The thing that will really transform wages in Cambodia ( and much of Asia ) will be the ASEAN 2015 agreement that allows for the free mobility of labour. That is really going to piss off a lot of capitalists who believe in the free mobility of capital, while they chain their workers to subsistence wages!
How is that a good point, it's a whole heap of assumptions,that aside. I don't agree with your charity premise at all. How can charity possibly be defined thus ? Surely it's in the good of the deed ? Why should it matter it if the deed is hand in hand with a full page ad in the New York Times, perhaps that may work to spur others as well, magnifying the charitable act. The importance you place on the loudness of the trumpets tune perhaps says more about the listener ?vladimir wrote:olderguy, good point, perhaps the point of charity is not blowing one's own trumpet.
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olderguy wrote:I guess that makes Andy's gifts about a 5 or 7?
If you'd bothered to read rather than jump to conclusions, you'd realise they weren't MY gifts. The girl had no clothes; my wife bought her clothes. My wife never considered them 'charity' and had no hidden agenda so it's a moot point anyway. Like the poster above said, you're full of (wrong) assumptions.
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I think from what I've read posted by self-professed geniuses, that such great intelligence must be a terrible burden. I mean, just for starters, you have to TELL everyone about it 24/7, and it must be so boring when everyone else is ignorant/stupid/ a loser. Frodo, how's the insecurity thing going?
LOL.Can't even tell the difference between a story and the facts. Well, they said they got rich honestly, so it must be true, right?
Is such obvious anger/ lack of tolerance part of enlightenment?
LOL.Can't even tell the difference between a story and the facts. Well, they said they got rich honestly, so it must be true, right?
Is such obvious anger/ lack of tolerance part of enlightenment?
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
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= gibberishvladimir wrote:I think from what I've read posted by self-professed geniuses, that such great intelligence must be a terrible burden. I mean, just for starters, you have to TELL everyone about it 24/7, and it must be so boring when everyone else is ignorant/stupid/ a loser. Frodo, how's the insecurity thing going?
LOL.Can't even tell the difference between a story and the facts. Well, they said they got rich honestly, so it must be true, right?
Is such obvious anger/ lack of tolerance part of enlightenment?
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Is that show still running on TV here? I aw a couple, they're quite good!jm wrote:At this point in the service let us turn to the wisdom of Larry David:
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