Originally posted by tr13 last 40-50 years with extremely high Europian and USA salaries due to robbery of other countries
tr13, as I highly appreciate your efforts with the firmware and try to support you, let me confine myself to this single remark.
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The European and US salaries reflect the high productivity of labour, powered by technology in turn powered by scientific progress and entrepreneurship. When Germany united with the Eastern part, they've shrunken some corporations from 5000 to 100 employees and still grew production. If Russia could design and build BMW, they would do, for sure. There now are great companies in Russia (like Abbyy) and this is a good thing. With recent globalisation, some "robbery" is involved as well but then the effective salaries here decreased, not increased. Because it made Europe and USA starting to export their wealth.
Believe me, it is very hard to be profitable as a company with the level of salaries we have. I know it. Hard but not impossible.
I agree that robbery of other countries takes place. But this isn't what made salaries here to be what they are. Not at all.
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