Labor Pains In Colorado

For the rest of the family, I presume.

Oh, I see. Families are for the well-off. (Coffee is for closers.)But wait - isn't birth control only for the well-off, too?

Yes. What part of that strikes you as unreasonable?How many people's income should it require to rent a single apartment?

How much less do you think it is, Jon? Do you think it's half?

Buz, a Chinese auto worker makes roughly $120 a month and works a 12-hour shift.Unions or not, what American could possibly work for that? Even wages at the non-union auto plants in right-to-work states aren't anywhere close to that low. Who would spend 12 hours a day at a job that wouldn't even cover rent? A fifth of the rent? That's like paying money to work.I mean, I'll meet you halfway - I think many unions have entrenched their power at the expense of the workers they represent; I think they've crafted rules that made sense at the time, but now leave union shops unable to adapt to changing circumstances. I think unions do too much to shelter the incompetent and extract rents. But come on, you can't lay offshoring at the feet of unions. There are just no circumstances under which an American could underbid the Chinese wage schedule because the GDP and cost of living between the two nations is just so different. And you may not be aware but all Chinese workers are unionized.