Half of the ferry workers in British Columbia make over $75,000.00 a year. And some of them direct traffic and some flip eggs. That is a huge problem for economic development. They are just not worth it.
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Perhaps you could expand your horizons a bit and spend some time in Asia
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And what will that accomplish in this discussion. Will touring the sweatshops where they make North Face packs and luggage for peanuts and live stacked up in shanties change opinions? Huge office towers built with cheap labor and no real building code so they collapse easily is progress? Its kind of bullshit capitalism. Like I said if we legalized slavery, we could compete as well.
What Alex is suggesting is that we adopt that Chinese/Asian model to compete. Roll out the ships, chains, and manacles and lets get down to competitive business on an equal playing field.
Somewhere in between lies the solution. But on a bigger scale, and I said this years ago on this board perhaps, the Chinese are sucking us into a new kind of warfare. Economic warfare and the Alex solution is exactly what they want to hear.