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1) Pay, with cooperation of NK government, for 10 000 hand picked North Koreans (including minders) travelling expenses to come to UK based labour camp
2) Employ North Koreans for £10/week (paid to government directly)
3) Have the North Koreans make you stuff (e.g. Land Rovers) to take advantage of UK trade links but with virtually free labour (and a bloody motivated and skilled labour force at that). Also helps to improve things for the ordinary North Koreans.
Not an entirely serious suggestion but could be an interesting brainstorming thread. Or just sink without a trace, but that would be sad.
2) Employ North Koreans for £10/week (paid to government directly)
3) Have the North Koreans make you stuff (e.g. Land Rovers) to take advantage of UK trade links but with virtually free labour (and a bloody motivated and skilled labour force at that). Also helps to improve things for the ordinary North Koreans.
Not an entirely serious suggestion but could be an interesting brainstorming thread. Or just sink without a trace, but that would be sad.
Somewhatfoolish said:
1) Pay, with cooperation of NK government, for 10 000 hand picked North Koreans (including minders) travelling expenses to come to UK based labour camp
2) Employ North Koreans for £10/week (paid to government directly)
3) Have the North Koreans make you stuff (e.g. Land Rovers) to take advantage of UK trade links but with virtually free labour (and a bloody motivated and skilled labour force at that). Also helps to improve things for the ordinary North Koreans.
Not an entirely serious suggestion but could be an interesting brainstorming thread. Or just sink without a trace, but that would be sad.
You appear to have missed one of the biggest criticisms of communism. Unemployment is low, underemployment is high...2) Employ North Koreans for £10/week (paid to government directly)
3) Have the North Koreans make you stuff (e.g. Land Rovers) to take advantage of UK trade links but with virtually free labour (and a bloody motivated and skilled labour force at that). Also helps to improve things for the ordinary North Koreans.
Not an entirely serious suggestion but could be an interesting brainstorming thread. Or just sink without a trace, but that would be sad.
At a stroke introducing a significant cost advantage for the company employing this cheap labour.
Leads to the throwing out of work lots of innocent people who are suddenly 'overpaid'.
Bringing cheap labour in from outside the uk will totally screw those who live in the uk and have the living costs associated with that.
Would you like to pop along to a pcg meeting and propose this?
Leads to the throwing out of work lots of innocent people who are suddenly 'overpaid'.
Bringing cheap labour in from outside the uk will totally screw those who live in the uk and have the living costs associated with that.
Would you like to pop along to a pcg meeting and propose this?
Somewhatfoolish said:
1) Pay, with cooperation of NK government, for 10 000 hand picked North Koreans (including minders) travelling expenses to come to UK based labour camp
2) Employ North Koreans for £10/week (paid to government directly)
3) Have the North Koreans make you stuff (e.g. Land Rovers) to take advantage of UK trade links but with virtually free labour (and a bloody motivated and skilled labour force at that). Also helps to improve things for the ordinary North Koreans.
Not an entirely serious suggestion but could be an interesting brainstorming thread. Or just sink without a trace, but that would be sad.
Someone thought of this already, but made it more efficient with even less cost.2) Employ North Koreans for £10/week (paid to government directly)
3) Have the North Koreans make you stuff (e.g. Land Rovers) to take advantage of UK trade links but with virtually free labour (and a bloody motivated and skilled labour force at that). Also helps to improve things for the ordinary North Koreans.
Not an entirely serious suggestion but could be an interesting brainstorming thread. Or just sink without a trace, but that would be sad.
Leave the workers where they are, and build the item where the workers are...
mas99 said:
At a stroke introducing a significant cost advantage for the company employing this cheap labour.
Leads to the throwing out of work lots of innocent people who are suddenly 'overpaid'.
Bringing cheap labour in from outside the uk will totally screw those who live in the uk and have the living costs associated with that.
Would you like to pop along to a pcg meeting and propose this?
There are lots of people who are currently overpaid in our economy. But your suggestion sadly won't solve that problem.Leads to the throwing out of work lots of innocent people who are suddenly 'overpaid'.
Bringing cheap labour in from outside the uk will totally screw those who live in the uk and have the living costs associated with that.
Would you like to pop along to a pcg meeting and propose this?
Funk said:
It's called 'slavery' and was abolished a long time ago.
Nah, they're going to be paid, just not very much. Anyhow do you think slavery would have been abolished if the slaves had a much better quality of life as slaves than they did back in their home country?530dTPhil said:
Somewhatfoolish said:
1) a bloody motivated and skilled labour force at that
Until they realise that they have nowhere to stay and no money to buy food!BigAlinEmbra said:
Somewhatfoolish said:
1) Pay, with cooperation of NK government, for 10 000 hand picked North Koreans (including minders) travelling expenses to come to UK based labour camp
2) Employ North Koreans for £10/week (paid to government directly)
3) Have the North Koreans make you stuff (e.g. Land Rovers) to take advantage of UK trade links but with virtually free labour (and a bloody motivated and skilled labour force at that). Also helps to improve things for the ordinary North Koreans.
Not an entirely serious suggestion but could be an interesting brainstorming thread. Or just sink without a trace, but that would be sad.
You appear to have missed one of the biggest criticisms of communism. Unemployment is low, underemployment is high...2) Employ North Koreans for £10/week (paid to government directly)
3) Have the North Koreans make you stuff (e.g. Land Rovers) to take advantage of UK trade links but with virtually free labour (and a bloody motivated and skilled labour force at that). Also helps to improve things for the ordinary North Koreans.
Not an entirely serious suggestion but could be an interesting brainstorming thread. Or just sink without a trace, but that would be sad.
mas99 said:
At a stroke introducing a significant cost advantage for the company employing this cheap labour.
Leads to the throwing out of work lots of innocent people who are suddenly 'overpaid'.
Bringing cheap labour in from outside the uk will totally screw those who live in the uk and have the living costs associated with that.
Would you like to pop along to a pcg meeting and propose this?
Your argument is with Ricardo I think Leads to the throwing out of work lots of innocent people who are suddenly 'overpaid'.
Bringing cheap labour in from outside the uk will totally screw those who live in the uk and have the living costs associated with that.
Would you like to pop along to a pcg meeting and propose this?
Anyhow been doing a bit of research, here is the official DPRK resource on business in North Korea, here are some consultants, if anyone's interested.
You can also open a bank account there so long as you promise the money hasn't come from illegal activity and there is no tax. Verily, this must be a paradise on earth, not far off Somalia.
Edited by Somewhatfoolish on Monday 6th April 12:20
In time, the NK's will find another job paying at least tens times as much. They may get beaten by the minders, but only until they leave themselves to work as doorman for £10/hour. Mind you, if you are offering free accommodation and food, it would make sense to sell it as a package, not peanuts/hour. You aren't in charge of the budget for the 2012 olympics by any chance?
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