Corporate capitalism today pays the majority of tax in the country and is responsible for its growth. It also directly funds the NHS amongst other institutions.
Indeed though lets get rid of it.
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Tony Blair on Nick Robinson's Show
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Corporate capitalism today pays the majority of tax in the country and is responsible for its growth. It also directly funds the NHS amongst other institutions.
Indeed though lets get rid of it.
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Corporate capitalism today pays the majority of tax in the country and is responsible for its growth. It also directly funds the NHS amongst other institutions.
Indeed though lets get rid of it.
Who said get rid of it?
Who said get rid of it?
You want to damage it don't you? Why would they bother staying?
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You want to damage it don't you? Why would they bother staying?
To continue to do business.
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Fair enough, I am sure some are pretty crap.Like you I work in the IT industry and the quality I've seen from outsourced software development has generally been abysmal. And does anyone prefer talking to an overseas call-centre rather than a UK-based one?
It's just the "loyal british worker" bit that got my goat. Like we're all hardworking but persecuted and downtrodden souls having terrible things done to us by those evil employers.
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Run for the hills! The Commies are coming....
Like you I work in the IT industry and the quality I've seen from outsourced software development has generally been abysmal. And does anyone prefer talking to an overseas call-centre rather than a UK-based one?
These fuckers from Indian degree mills are killing me. Instead of contracting fine professionals such as myself (!) to build software, they're hiring these lads at one tenth the cost then throwing us the bugfix work. The problem here though is that often the design patterns they've used are either non-existent or inappropriate so the apple is rotten to the core and we have to gaffa tape it together in some Frankensteinish way.
A big reason for me considering a career change at the moment is that I can see the way the wind is blowing there.
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These fuckers from Indian degree mills are killing me. Instead of contracting fine professionals such as myself (!) to build software, they're hiring these lads at one tenth the cost then throwing us the bugfix work. The problem here though is that often the design patterns they've used are either non-existent or inappropriate so the apple is rotten to the core and we have to gaffa tape it together in some Frankensteinish way.
A big reason for me considering a career change at the moment is that I can see the way the wind is blowing there.
In a previous life I helped small companies to export. One company I "worked" with in East Anglia produced hand made handbags, high quality, super expensive. They closed down their Norwich factory and contracted the lot out to India, the initial samples had been great, and the Indians could produce handbags at a fraction of the cost their Norwich workers (make that ex-workers) could.
Do I need to tell you what happened? Orders were late, or never arrived, but the real kicker was the quality, with only token quality control the number of handbags that arrived in the UK that had to be rejected crept up with every order and some ended up with retailers, their reputation took a nose dive and sales slumped.
They wanted to know if the Department for International Trade had any grants available to subsidise an Indian quality controller for them in Mumbai!
In a previous life I helped small companies to export. One company I "worked" with in East Anglia produced hand made handbags, high quality, super expensive. They closed down their Norwich factory and contracted the lot out to India, the initial samples had been great, and the Indians could produce handbags at a fraction of the cost their Norwich workers (make that ex-workers) could.
Do I need to tell you what happened? Orders were late, or never arrived, but the real kicker was the quality, with only token quality control the number of handbags that arrived in the UK that had to be rejected crept up with every order and some ended up with retailers, their reputation took a nose dive and sales slumped.
They wanted to know if the Department for International Trade had any grants available to subsidise an Indian quality controller for them in Mumbai!
These issues are why I'm a global federalist.
The only way for global corporations to be held to account is to have global labour unions. And that requires global labour laws. Which requires global economic law which requires a global political establishment.
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These issues are why I'm a global federalist.
The only way for global corporations to be held to account is to have global labour unions. And that requires global labour laws. Which requires global economic law which requires a global political establishment.
My department was decimated from 150 to 30, the rest went to Pune India, now our job takes years to learn the ins and outs of, their churn is over 50% whole thing has been a disaster but it is saving them money.