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When Costner underbids to keep his workers employed

posted 9 years ago by Trackmaster
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Was anybody else concerned by this? I thought that it was a really dumb thing for him to do, and basically played right into the hands of the unfair economy. By doing this, he not only provides free slave labor for his clients, but he hurts the market, and makes it so that his competitors have to lose clients or work for dirt cheap to stay in business. If he stood his ground, and demanded fair wages for fair work, he's get his customer base back eventually, but wouldn't put other hard working people out of business, and wouldn't sacrifice his family's welfare for a short-term solution to a problem.

[–] Nikon11 9 years ago

What fairy-tale world do you live in? There's no work tree, like there's no money tree.

Sometimes people only choose to pay to have work done because it's cheap. So, if Jack had, "...stood his ground, and demanded fair wages for fair work,...", the client may have told him to go screw, and either have gone with someone else, or just not had the work done.

Jack did an honorable thing for his workers, keeping them busy during a time when there wasn't a lot of construction happening.

"...short-term solution to a problem", my ass. Sometimes that short-term solution is food on the table and money to pay the rent.