[p2p-research] "Pennsylvania pie fight," etc.

[Michel Bauwens]

but it is not family based here (though within the family there is a high
degree of solidatiry and mutual help, and not so much outside of it)

Michel

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/17/09, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > what it means is the following: thai businesses pay very low wages, but
> > always hire an excess amount of labour, so that the work pressure,
> despite
> > the long hours, is actually quite low to western standards. I would
> estimate
> > the ratio of workers to a particular job as being a factor of 3. Bear in
> > mind this is not scientific, but based on my observations in the
> > construction industry, in the restaurant business, in banks and shopping
> > malls, i.e. the things I can see, but I've never been in a factory for
> > example, though I strongly suspect it would be similar.
> >
> > This system has some advantages: many more people have a job, but they
> don't
> > have to work so hard at it, and have ample time for socialising in the
> work
> > sphere. For the privileged, it means cheap labour, but also especially
> cheap
> > services (nannies, and generally very cheap personal services such as
> > haircuts, massage, etc...). A typical middle class family, even it if
> earns
> > say a quarter of its western counterpart, would have a lifestyle quality
> > that is a quantum leap better than anything available in the West, as
> long
> > as they don't spent their money abroad.
>
> Interesting.  It sounds a bit like the patronage system among the
> clans chieftains of the Scottish Highlands, with the chieftain
> maintaining an extended network of retainers from the poorer members
> of the clan.
>
> --
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>



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