News For Mom: Lego Laying Off 1200 / Ending US Production

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

How sad of a day! Lego will be ending it's US production and laying off a good chunk of it's workforce.

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Anonymous said...: Travis: I want to take this out to the outer edges of the universe. Okay, a rich country (u.s.) pays its people too much. So company's move their production to poorer countries where the people are not paid as much. As more companies move more of their production to the poorer countries, the people who work (not invest, etc.) start losing their jobs and they get poor. All the while the people in the poor countries, since now more work is pouring (pun) into them want more and get paid more and are becoming richer. So after a while the old rich countries that are now poor are looked at by the companies and they start taking jobs from the poor countries that are now rich and moving them to the rich countries that are now poor. What? Lenny Bruce would love this
Pops; 2:15 PM