From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Wed Aug 13 2003 - 10:29:44 MDT
Randy wrote:
>
> How about if you and I and several other business partners develop a
> product, then you turn around and sell the trade secrets relating to
> the product to a competitor. You make out big time and I lose out big
> time. Oh wait, I forgot-- because the competitor did not have to
> spend the money and time to develop the product (just the money he
> gave you), he can sell the product more cheaply than our company
> would have. Less development expenses, etc.
>
> And now, you say, in reply, I (and the other partners) can buy that
> product more cheaply than before. If I can make enough at Walmart to
> buy the product, of course.
>
> Gee, business partner, please don't do me any more "favors."
>
> Of course, not to put too fine a point (guess I do have to do
> that...), as an analogy, we Americans and our ancestors built this
> country into a place with tremendous competitive advantages: we as
> voters control and have exclusive labor market access to the biggest
> consumer market ever. That means that we can charge far more when we
> sell our labor here in the USA to labor buyers who want to sell
> products to this enormous consumer market. Compare to third
> worlders, for example.
### So where is the analogy? You are one of the Founders? You built this
country? You hammered the nails in the Transcontinental Railway?
Nah, the analogy goes like this - you are a junior partner, who wants to
take over the firm built by generations, stop hiring workers who are cheaper
and maybe better than him, and wants to get paid by seniority instead of
real work.
Rafal
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