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- From: louis@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Louis Schmittroth)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: Japanese Workers
- Message-ID: <louis.724395164@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 04:52:44 GMT
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- thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
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- |In article <louis.724349346@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca| louis@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Louis Schmittroth) writes:
- ||I would also bet, but cannot prove, that the Sony employees in Japan are
- ||earning more assembling PowerBooks than the Apple workers in the US are
- ||assembling desktop machines. Anybody know the answer?
-
- |Define "more." Odds are an American earning $30K a year has a much
- |higher quality of life than a Japanese worker earning the Japanese
- |equivalent of $33K a year.
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- During the great constitutional debate in Canada and the 1992
- referendum the YES side (govts, industry) ran ads quoting a UN survey
- as to the highest average "quality of life" whatever *that* means.
- Canada was rated as No. 1, ichiban, but guess who was rated as No. 2:
- Nippon. I can't remember where the US was. Of course if I let you
- define the weightings to be applied, any one of several countries could
- come in first. Based on leisure time I think the Germans do.
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- Louis Schmittroth louis@cs.athabascau.ca
- NW 1/4 18 67 21 W4 Alberta.
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