tracyandalex
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well that's comforting! If anyone should end up with our info, please let me know so I can waste my time calling to complain!
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Spirited News & Observations II -- NGE/Baxter
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well that's comforting! If anyone should end up with our info, please let me know so I can waste my time calling to complain!
Tiggerrules
Member
Maybe we should start a new thread for thos that cannot see their profile, they could then ask others on here if they see it. That way they can access their vacation and have them make changes for them. LOL By the way hope your profile is not missing.
On the minimum wages, we were having a hypothetical discussion. But since minimum wages are set by governments, they would theoretically be telling me what to do in that instance. Recently, they've told me I must provide certain levels of health insurance to employees who meet a certain standard or else face a penalty (and then either I or the employee may have to pay a Cadillac tax if they coverage is deemed too excessive by our government. Go figure). As far as unions in Florida, they have very little influence. So they are not so much a factor here as they are in other parts of the country. Is that a good start?
As to the discussion about labor cost and its effect on manufacturing industries: Just wanted to put it out there that there are a number of European countries (Netherlands, Sweden and Germany for example) that have a) higher labor cost than the US, b) higher taxes than the US and still c) higher share of GNP earned by the manufacturing sector than the US. One might also assume that those countries have a higher level of regulation in general - and also suffered from the disadvantages of the low dollar exchange rate in the recent years.
tracyandalex
Well-Known Member
Excellent idea! We're still there, mostly. Some of our info can't be retrieved!? So is that an error or is someone else going to be in my house when I get home in a little bit?
flynnibus
Premium Member
Do they also not specialize in premium product? And import most of the low cost product they consume? Would they be able to make the low cost products they need themselves? The setup of the trade zones allows countries to specialize and export their high value.. without penalty to their needs to import the low value goods.
I don't see many german high volume, low margin products in the market. But I may be mistaken
The energy import (oil) in the US drags on our trade balance.
The labor situation in Europe thrives on the back of other countries with much higher labor output (asia and others).
That's just the problem with our bastardized version of capitalism (one I firmly believe is destroying what was a great society). Profits are NEVER enough. So workers will always be begging for more. If Disney tripled its profits this year, then who would benefit? Execs and, depending on the analysts, Wall Street/shareholders. Disney wouldn't suddenly say 'we made so much more, so we're increasing salaries of workers across the board under the exec level.''
It never works that way. The beast always must be fed ... MORE ... MORE ... MORE!!! ... Ask yourself where does it end?
WDW has cut so much 'fat' that they then went and cut muscle and bone. What's next? Vital organs? Again, all while TWDC has never been more profitable or valuable.
I am awaiting further info, but may have more to report tonight or tomorrow.
Really? Now, I'm a troll because I dare question someone who is being very less than truthful about why NGE/MM+ interests him?
Glad you've given Flynn a friend because with his personality, I'm sure he needs all he can get.
And I have a little walled city here? Really? That's cute. ... He isn't a threat to me whatsoever. I'm honest. He isn't. He knows it ... oh. and so do you.
MerlinTheGoat
Well-Known Member
Good analogy 74, about cuts done to parts of a body with muscle, bone and vitals. Though in my opinion, i'd argue that "vital organs" have already been compromised or removed. Epcot feels a lot like that- as if it was a healthy body that had important parts of it damaged or removed. All of the attractions cut out and/or replaced by inferior ones in the 90's feels like that, as if the place was partially lobotomized and had its heart removed while either not putting anything back in, or replacing the organs with worse substitutes that don't work as well. So to me, cutting into and either damaging or removing the vital organs has already happened. In my opinion anyways.
But what in your opinion is a vital organ at WDW? I think it has already started happening, but i'd to know what you think constitutes being vital.
But what in your opinion is a vital organ at WDW? I think it has already started happening, but i'd to know what you think constitutes being vital.
Thanks. I'm just reporting what people who truly know what's going on tell me. ... Oh, and I hate the system, I hate the ridiculous spending of company funds as opposed to other needs and I don't want to be tracked by Bob Iger and Co. But I am honest and open about that.
One would hope it already is fixed.
As I said yesterday, if it is still an issue than the system should be shut down. People don't need a computer to access info. They can pick up the phone and do it the ancient way. Imagine ... using a iPhone to actually speak to someone!??! Shocking!
As to the next round of testing, waiting to hear that.
Not in what most folks would term the 'modern era' ...
lazyboy97o
Well-Known Member
There it is again. The insinuation that those who disagree are somehow dishonest along with a slam at a poster's personality and personal social life. @flynnibus has repeatedly stated where he sees potential benefits for himself in MyMagic+ and they are nothing unusual, but exactly what Disney is hoping to capitalize upon. I disagree. I do not think the benefits will be as meaningful to the experience, or that the new information collected by Disney will be properly utilized to achieve such goals. But I'm not going to start "asking questions" intended to do nothing more than demean a person with whom I disagree. It may be better masked, but it is still childish name calling.
Huh? How do you think the information is accessed if you call by phone? And besides, that's a stranger working for Disney who is now in direct contact with your information, a concern that has been brought up regarding access to the information involved with MyMagic+.
Horizonsfan
Well-Known Member
Here's a graphic to highlight just how out of whack things have become over the last few decades:
It can be found from this Washington Post article, I highly suggest reading it: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...e-best-argument-for-raising-the-minimum-wage/
As is stated in the article, a minimum wage increase isn't the best option but it is a good one.
The end result also isn't a guarantee increase in consumer prices and/or fewer jobs, they are just some of many possible results for a company
This quote from the article sums it up:
And businesses aren't raising prices now? How steady have Disney prices been in the last 15 years? Compare wages to the costs of everything. The ONLY thing that never significantly goes up (when you take into account inflation, often they go down) are wages. People NEED TO LIVE and THRIVE. They NEED A CHANCE. Not a chance to flip burgers at McD's for minimum wage while holding two college degrees and $200K in student loan debt. You know what that builds? Angry people who become sociopaths and worse.
Insurance? People need it. We always love telling everyone how we're the kindest most caring and compassionate people on earth. Well, maybe that's true when another nation has a disaster or when a kitty falls in a drain pipe in your local town, but it isn't true when it someone needs a pricey surgery to save their life and they don't have health insurance. I have never been one anyone could closely call a 'bleeding heart' (as a faux top one percenter that would go against my reason for being!), but the more I read from people everywhere (including here) the more I realize we're a very cold nation of people who are mostly interested in only ourselves and our finances.
It's sorta like WDW fans. The reason it crumbles while DL shines is because fans aren't together on anything and never view it from the macro perspective. Some fans are still bemoaning Horizons, others about Stitch, others missing AC, some only caring about whether they'll get enough FPs with MM+ ... so WDW continues to be a lessser product because very few people can look at it from the total picture perspective.
I have tried to steer the conversation away from politics, so let's leave the Prez out of this (FWIW, if this were the early 80s, he'd be to the right of Ronald Reagan that's how far this country has turned). But I absolutely believe if someone makes more than $250,000 a year (anywhere except perhaps NYC or San Francisco or Chicago), they are top one percent and should be taking more of a burden. In those three cities where cost of living is so high, I'd say $400,000 is fair.
Taxes have to stop being a dirty word. We had a budget surplus before Bush took office ... if you want to constantly play wargames in the middle east with no real goals, then someone has to pay the bills ... I'd like to charge those bills to Wall Street and the 'too big to fail' banks that took untold trillions of dollars, but we all know that isn't going to happen.
Oh, and a great society never exists that doesn't take care of all of its people.
Tiggerrules
Member
Hopefully no one will be in your house. It does pose some really disturbing problems though.
I wouldn't wait 30 minutes for a drink ... any drink ... at WDW or elsewhere!
Ultimately, you simply can't compare small businesses like the one you work for to big companies and mammoth corps. That's what Wall Street and CNBC talking heads want to convince the masses of unwashed from coast to coast. Small businesses are as different from large corps that it's sorta like comparing apples to mountains.
Yep, but that was a lifetime ago ... (literally for some of the posters here).
Back when Walt Disney Productions was a small company, not a global media titan.