From the series "Ordinary mail"
The manufacturing industry classic, traditional, disappears in the West. This is called offshoring virus is not a casual nor, strictly speaking, a product of corporate shamelessness, though it should not be ruled out, but never a sign of the times, an economic and consequently social. Will not see big manufacturing centers with hundreds, perhaps thousands, of workers entering the touch of the little mermaid is more: not even be seen in the so-called emerging economies Called to take this production that we lose, because even industrial morphology is changing substantially. Things work differently now and that may like or not, but true.
Initially, the thing is painful: layoffs, people with many years of dedication to a company is laying out on the street and, too often, professional unarmed to survive in the market -they call him - work. Gone are the wages of 1200 euros for driving screws. Worse, it's over, here in the West, paying salaries, or a thousand or five hundred, by tightening screws, this is a thing of Chinese, Taiwanese, Thais and the other eses. Its lowest standard of living allows very low wages, the only ones acceptable grip screws into fewer places and things in which it is not possible to do a máquna, and, as the English-remember that once we were the beneficiaries of other relocation-the joy will last a generation (I do not think it gets to the two that has lasted to us) as soon as the Asian standard of living at put those responsible for production costs will look to Africa, where AIDS and hunger have not settled on all Africans, and now will Westernized Asian that now make a living as us.
Well, all that is to get the look too far and the variables that may occur between now and then are many, if not infinite yes, of course, uncontrollable. A simple example: what will happen if the West becomes independent of oil, which, intended or unintended, the result will be that of climate change - with countries, mainly but not only Arabs, whose incomes depend on the black gold? Will it mark the replacement workforce of some Asian salaries and then unbearable? The world on fire "in a widespread revolt of huge proportions that there would be 11-S been more than a microscopic trace?
But there is a present that is already problematic: a number of factory workers are losing their jobs without being able to assume other by lack of training. Incidentally, most of which are in this situation are women. All of them are forced into jobs for which they have a fierce competition among immigrants, jobs that can only be achieved by accepting wages which, initially, are below the amount of unemployment benefits. But ... What then?
Spain is very bad for innovation. The famous "Let others invent!" It was not sarcasm de Unamuno, but was received and accepted - and applauded! - in its most serious literalness. English is distance from the technological or scientific progress as if it were not with him, as if it were a matter of kooks, soaring immature or specialists, but something stolen, anyway. Ignorant contempt and suspicion that lurks behind the "what do é pa ezo?" already anticipates a shrug at the response, fair and reasonable for it to be, the "me, computers do not understand " this not to shame at their ignorance but arrogance and pride, as if understand computers were something low ilk, unworthy of high rank. Some people still do not understand computers , believe it, but until recently, thousands of stupid tie lived convinced that computers were a thing of administrative and secretarial and his own was bawling by the end of airports saying blatant bullshit when a mobile worth more than thousand and euros and was only available to them no-poor asshole, but their businesses. In short, all those eyes wide open to those emerging ZX, Osborne and other pottery and its immense possibilities, rather than guess, were clearly predictable, in the early eighties, we had to endure for many years but we were not kids playing with gadgets, and a few others recall a similar phenomenon (pa ezo what do é? ) with the advent of the Internet, whose most famous corollary was nothing less than a president Telefonica ('ll never forget it) who treated Internet users' chatters and risky for their money " light, stenographers and microphones.
In line with the desk buddy, politicians ( all politicians all parties, with honorable exceptions such as few) have devoted enormous efforts to straighten this vicious social trend, as would be reasonable, but on the contrary, to accentuate, for the benefit of their ignorance and their supine tecnoanalfabetismo stabbing, but above all, to benefit a range of actors who first saw the enemy, some technology I continue to see-and then a business. A benefit of anyone and anything but the technological development of this country and open-mindedness, in this area, its citizens. Oh, by the way: who says science technology says, and so, here we treat them as fellows, with salaries at that level-a Cerebrons in Europe (in the real Europe, not in this pigsty) and America cult would and reverence for that, which can make off there (yes: when celebrity chub caught or covered by the media prize, all mental culogordos party like mad to take the picture with them and give them prize "Prince of Asturias', if Bill Gates or the players have made available).
In this environment, employers are pulling their hair short of skilled labor. Less is the Mesariá if they had occupied at the time of providing such training to their workers (always taken and never spending an investment, and they had better, the very idiots, what a crappy employer of here) and may ameliorate rather the problem if you did not intend to pay a super-specialized worker's salary, now, a tight screw. That eating seafood at a price of sardines is something we'd like them all, but we all also know that it is not possible (under normal conditions). It is true, however, that even though there is a clear pay gap for these workers.
is also true that trade unions around the same parties, for that matter-have not taken much trouble about it. The training of workers has never been a priority (no right of workers has been, in fact ... priority to other interests) and, moreover, have never worked to instill an ethic whereby professional, without prejudice to the rights of the worker and employer's liability, we must cultivate the proper office and keep up to date and recycled in him and constantly seek innovative vectors not wait for home business training; if only for a reason to feel finished patent, as said earlier, no one can expect to retire in the company that works if you have more than ten years left to retirement. Therefore, no training deficits will eat the employer (as well, but in broad terms and short-term) but the worker himself outdated training that will have to look then the fast, running, expensive and not always of good quality (public advocacy courses are truly disgusting, usually given the brother of the rail).
This has taken us tarzanesco "I do not know" which is the real national anthem of this unfortunate and regrettable country and therefore, despite the reservations of some of my readers, I still believe that this is sinking and will continue recommending to my daughters, with increasing emphasis and heat, the best thing a girl can do with respect to Spain is to give the boat as soon after graduation.
Unless, of course, that what we take to be a ferocious kick in the teeth to politicians and thousand times computer idiots who do not understand .
But I will not ever.
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