Turkey’s ranked top 10 by the ITUC for worst workers’ rights too. Not exactly a place I’d brag about outsourcing labour to.
Didn't Kevin Stewart end up costing an average of 40k a game? Now can't get into Blackpools starting 11.
China's not cheap labour any more, you go there for premium products nowadays, the cheap stuff's all gone to Bangladesh (minimum wage US$17.25 per month) or Pakistan (minimum wage US$79.40 per month). Turkey's minimum wage was over US$400.00 per month, though it's gone a bit tits up there recently, with inflation/exchange rate etc. I don't trade on price, so I have the luxury of being able to make sure I get premium products and the people that make them earn decent money.
Decent money compared to who? They are cheap labour compared to here. You make it sound as you are being a philanthropist rather than a hard nosed businessman out for a profit and having alifestyle they can only dream of (nothing wrong with that, I am a bigger advocate of capitalism than many on here). In fact we have people on benefits having a lifestyle many in Turkey and numerous other places around the world can only dream of.
True and the transfer fee paid for him at the time, £5m? was the average fee paid in the PL for a player for that season. He should never have debuted at WHU and IMO only did so because SKY was there. We were already two nil down and we had a bigger game at home on the Saturday ( WHU was midweek) against WBA who were fighting relegation with us, so a six pointer. Plus Bullard was put on against the very player, Scott Parker, who crippled him first time around when he was with Bolton, and he duly did it again. A classic case of ''what could have been'.
No matter what level of benefits, pensions or salary, people in the UK are financially wealthier than over 90% of the other people on the planet.
Based on? The average income in the UK? (yes, in many ways we are very fortunate to have been born here) -> China's not cheap labour any more, you go there for premium products nowadays, the cheap stuff's all gone to Bangladesh (minimum wage US$17.25 per month) or Pakistan (minimum wage US$79.40 per month). Interesting. So China has developed away from the place for cheap labour. Now Bangladesh. I wonder what country will come after Bangladesh, when India / Pakistan / Bangladesh develops as they inevitably will?
You still get very cheap labour in China. And no nonsense about unions arguing over pay and striking. Which is why Apple have so much stuff made there. I know someone who has worked in China for years and there is a larger disparity in wealth and earnings than what there is here.
