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From: brad@looking.UUCP
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Subject: Re: market crash
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Date: Mon, 9-Nov-87 19:23:23 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  9 19:23:23 1987
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Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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In article <2291@watcgl.waterloo.edu> idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen) writes:
>In article <1078@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
>> [...]
>> With low internal wages, almost feudal-style industrialism,
>> an extremely agressive export program and (at first) free access to the
>> world's largest markets, they manufactured first the cheapest, and later the
>> highest quality goods in several industries.
>> [...]
>> What does this suggest about the value of free access to the US market?
>
>It suggests that the best way to compete for the US market is to
>encourage low wages and an almost feudal-style industrialism?
>-- 
>        -IAN!  (Ian! D. Allen)      University of Waterloo

Yes, if Canadians want to work for $1 per hour in Japanese style companies,
then we too can have the export success of Japan.   Point is Japan got where
it was through the combination of a number of factors, and access to the US
market was one of the more important ones.   Perhaps all are needed, and
we should learn to speak Japanese.  I think that the kind of innovation
ecouraged by free enterprise is a suitable substitute for cheap labour.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473