manqiangrexue
Brigadier
Yeah, Mexicans who pick fruit 18 hours a day didn't come to the US for an easy life; they came for a livable life. To them, 9-5 living is not possible; in Mexico, they probably can't even find a job.
OK, so if they are doing fine in Mexico and staying there, then that also agrees with what I said in that the standard of living is what determines where they go. Higher standard in Mexico, stay in Mexico. Higher in the US, go to the US. Soft power has nothing to do with it.
Uh, no, your summary is incorrect. The minimum wage in Mexico is $4.90 and hour while those specifically hired for foreign companies can earn an average of $6.57 an hour. That means all those who can't find a job or can't find a job manufacturing for a foreign company have a huge interest in entering the US for higher wages. I didn't say every Mexican wants to enter the US, but those who have an easier life here, and a ton of them qualify for that, do.
"Potential rising labor rates in Mexico could come at a time when inflation is a major concern in the U.S. and world economies, even though the wage for an entry level worker in Mexico is $4.90 per hour, significantly below the $7.25 per hour minimum wage in the U.S. Workers in Mexico’s maquiladora industry typically earn more than minimum wage, the average entry level being $6.57 per hour."
Currency values rise and fall. It has nothing to do with this discussion even if the author used "Mighty" to describe Mexican money.
I stated those as the most common reasons people decide where to base a factory on and I said they are all speculative. They might have welcomed him too but maybe Germany offered him better terms. Common business reasons.
You asked me how I know Japan didn't welcom him as if you knew what you were talking about. But actually, your reasoning is that if no one can prove exactly what was behind the decision, you get to say it's soft power. Sorry, debate logic doesn't work like that. You have never showed Japan to lack soft power or Germany to have it and have made no comparison. This is an invented story in your head that you want others to disprove, which is a logical fallacy.
This says Musk identified demographic weakness in Japan. It means he's not confident in Japan's future, which probably led him to not want to invest there. Hard power reason.
Funny coming from you posting all irrelevent links. Show me the right place with your ballpark quantities.
Wayyy more substance than you trying to prove soft power by arguing that quality of life in Mexico/Camaroon/Ethiopia is on par with the US.
Going to NYU instead of Enrique Low Multra Integrated Institute (Girón, Santander)
Possibly, if they study hard. What kind of stupid question is this?
OK, so some people want to go to Dubai for the good pay too. So what?
Ethiopian Airlines is not Ethiopian airline???
Vietnam is a developed country with a very large GDP??? This is another definition failure of yours. Can't debate on this when you can't get the basic facts right.
You didn't need to; you could have just said it. That's true and doesn't mean anything.
Why would I deny that? It's a random fact that would completely fail if the intent were to prove that the US is poorer than the Global South on average.
It is and it didn't. That's how easy it is to prove you wrong.
Qatar doesn't have enough hard power. If they banned the US, which has massive hard power, they would be sanctioned into the ground and the US might even make up some reason to invade them. Hard power is the final answer to all problems. If you don't have it, you will need to resort to briding and begging like Qatar.
LOL What soft power? the soft power of a business paying people and investing in things? Running a good business? You don't have any idea what soft power is, which is why this debate is so stupid. If Qatar goes against the US, watch the US use hard power to kill this airline. Soft power is always useless in hard conflict.
I don't see anything that (sic) Germany wants to be poor and to have its industry crushed either but you made that shit up, didn't you?
It's called confusion over what is soft power, which you demonstrate with every post. Having money to buy things =/= soft power.
Irrelevent. I never said the US is the only place people want to move and software wages are no average wages accross all sectors. People move where the money is. That's the hard power of economics and funding.
English too poor, makes no sense
Soft power and hard power can never be equal because 1. neither are quantifiable (though I'm sure you'll try) and 2. hard power always overcomes soft power. Whatever you build with soft power is 1 hard power ban away from 0.
Makes no sense and you've always shown just the opposite.
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