I want the egg and the chicken, but I don't want the chicken to put the egg!!!
If people want to see wages in the DR rise rapidly, stop supporting illegal immigration, make having a baby at a young age something to be ashamed of, and encourage massive emigration of the unskilled labor segment all at once.
Watch the wages rise and technology replace human labor from the sugarcane fields of La Romana all the way to the factories of Santiago.
Anything that doesn't includes increasing productivity on a per worker basis (ie. either decrease the labor pool while keeping productivity at current levels or keep the labor pool stable while increasing the productivity) is just a short term pipe dream.
It's like Socialism, it works well until countries grow out of it, then its either back to Capitalism or face a total collapse.
There's no way around this.
The only issue I have with people that often support high wages without taking into account the economic reality of a place, is that these are the same people that support actions and conditions that are counterproductive to achieving high wages. For example, they will come out in support of what this firm is doing "out of the blue", but also oppose deportation of illegal immigrants, oppose the use of technology, oppose pretty much anything that would ensure wages to rise.
It's as if they want to have the cake and eat it, without having someone baking it first. It simply doesn't make sense and these folks confuse the living daylights out of me. But, whatever.
BTW, I'm not against high wages, I'm just realistic of what needs to be done to have high wages become a reality in the DR, hence I will not support something that I know is a problem to achieving high wages.
The title of this post I think explains the dilemma quite clearly!
If people want to see wages in the DR rise rapidly, stop supporting illegal immigration, make having a baby at a young age something to be ashamed of, and encourage massive emigration of the unskilled labor segment all at once.
Watch the wages rise and technology replace human labor from the sugarcane fields of La Romana all the way to the factories of Santiago.
Anything that doesn't includes increasing productivity on a per worker basis (ie. either decrease the labor pool while keeping productivity at current levels or keep the labor pool stable while increasing the productivity) is just a short term pipe dream.
It's like Socialism, it works well until countries grow out of it, then its either back to Capitalism or face a total collapse.
There's no way around this.
The only issue I have with people that often support high wages without taking into account the economic reality of a place, is that these are the same people that support actions and conditions that are counterproductive to achieving high wages. For example, they will come out in support of what this firm is doing "out of the blue", but also oppose deportation of illegal immigrants, oppose the use of technology, oppose pretty much anything that would ensure wages to rise.
It's as if they want to have the cake and eat it, without having someone baking it first. It simply doesn't make sense and these folks confuse the living daylights out of me. But, whatever.
BTW, I'm not against high wages, I'm just realistic of what needs to be done to have high wages become a reality in the DR, hence I will not support something that I know is a problem to achieving high wages.
The title of this post I think explains the dilemma quite clearly!