Dr Dr wrote:

You showed that you are interested in doing whatever is necessary to make a
profit, to make your company profitable and to maximize your growth. You
wanted to maximize the return to the owners at any costs, including firing
people who were not able to do the job at the level you demanded of them.

Spin it any way you want. That's not what I said, and any reasonable person can
plainly see that. A person trolling for an argument might pretend I said I
would "maximize return at any cost", but that's inconsistent with the facts.
Nothing more to discuss in your first paragraph.

What if a corporation did exactly what you recommended for your smaller
company?

Hired people with a capacity to grow into more responsible positions and
encouraged them to do so?

What if a corporation found it could it could hire better workers
for less than their current employees? Should they fire those workers or
continue to pay higher salaries to workers who are not as productive as the
new work force?

They should start with firing some supervisors. If inexperienced people off the
street can be more productive and more efficient than those already on the job,
something is being badly mismanaged.

Now many large corporations are willing to take a chance that the cheapest
available labor....(and what's cheaper than moving the entire company
overseas?)....might be able to do the job as well or even better than the
existing work force- but there is no way to *prove* that new workers will be
more efficient and lower cost per unit output than the existing employees.

What if a school district fired a teacher because here students were not
performing well on their standardized tests. Since the students are the
future of our country, shouldn't we hold them up to the same standards as
you employed in your car business?


It depends *why* the students aren't performing well on the standardized tests.
Did the district reject the last 5 school bonds in a row, so that the average
class size is now 50 students? How are the students doing compared to those in
similar classes in the same district? It may the district, not the individual
teacher, that is failing to perform well. There is no easy answer to your
hypothetical question as there is a lack of information. If you developed
enough information to phrase the question properly- the answer would be obvious
before you asked it.