[Leica] multinationals

[Guy Bennett <guybnt@idt.net>]

>Julian Thomas wrote:
>
>> But I'm a sociologist so I'd much rather reign in the multinationals who
>> caused this in the first place <g>
>
>Multinationals don't do anything the Western consumer doesn't force them
>to do.
>I have yet to witness a company that ventures outside the borders (high risk
>investments!) just for the fun of it. It's the home market (consumers!) which
>doesn't want to pay home market wages. Julian, go buy a costume which is
>made in
>the UK from A to Z. I doubt you can afford that. So either someone in the
>UK has
>to get poor, or you have to find someone outside the borders, to sew that
>costume for *you*.
>
>Isn't your sociologist's socialistic political agenda blurring your vision?
>Isn't all this talk about how the multinationals "done it" out of fashion yet?
>
>Bernard


it would be interesting to study the profit margins of such costume (or
other) companies and compare them to actual consumer savings, and from the
findings attempt to determine who was profitting most from this situation.

i realize most consumers want 'the most for the least,' but it seems to me
that this cliché is equally - if not more - true of those who cater to
them. it seems that the companies are getting more most than the consumers.

guy