I mean that If their productivity and efficiency is high in one country, a few people's working can maintain many people's reasonable living standards. In another word, in this a case, many people would loss their job, but the unemployed can get relief-fund from their government. So relief-fund can maintain the jobless people's reasonable living standards of first or second grade.
Sincerely, Ju-chang He
SHENZHEN, P.R. CHINA Welcome to visit My Home Page at <http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/Exchange/3058/> or <http://www.geocities.com/~juchang/>
Tom Lehman wrote:
>
> Dear Chang,
>
> An American labor union leader who I admire and know to be a truthful
> individual says, that jobs are being eliminated in northern China and sent
> to southern China where the pay rate for workers is 1/3 that of in northen
> China. If my memory serves me correctly, the numbers were 69 cents American
> per hour worked in northern China, as opposed to 23 cents American per hour
> worked in southern China.
>
> Sincerely,
> Tom
>
> chang wrote:
>
> > What is the highest stage of social development for human beings? (Is
> > communism the last stage of social development for human beings?)
> >
> > In accordance with the theory of Marxism, communism is the highest stage
> > of social development for human beings. Marx himself, however, didn't
> > know how to get to communism. There is none in the world, I think, who
> > knows about it.
> >
> > People's living standard can be divided into four grades. The first
> > grade is necessary consumption of clothing, food, housing and
> > transportation. The second grade is ordinary consumption, which means
> > buying some more clothes and purchasing TV sets and washers, etc. The
> > third grade is extravagant consumption, which means going to hotel and
> > restaurants, taking cars and going to dancing-halls, etc. The fourth
> > grade is over-extravagant consumption.
> >
> > My article "On the Development of Social Economy" divides
> > social-economic development into four stages and regards "the stage of
> > time-decreasing in work" as the last, also the highest stage of the
> > development of social economy. In this stage, there may be a great
> > number of people out of work. But, after the government intervention and
> > regulation, working people work hard, and the unemployed can get
> > relief-fund from the government. The relief-fund of unemployment, of
> > course, is much less than working people's wages. But, nowadays, in the
> > developed industrial countries of western Europe and in the USA, the
> > relief-fund of unemployment is sufficient to maintain a person's living
> > standard of the first, even the second grade. This sort of living
> > standard for the unemployed is undoubtedly much higher than that in
> > Marxist times. If Marx were still alive, he, I guess, would be satisfied
> > with this last stage of social-economic development.
> >
> > If anybody is discontent with this last stage of mine, or thinks there
> > exists still better one in the world, please put it forward. We can make
> > a comparison between them and exchange our ideas so as to find out the
> > highest stage and form of social development for human beings.