Economic indicators - which do you use?

[pminmo]

Posix I sooooo agree. I work for a Big Company, they calculate they need to make $150 for each hour of an engineers time to break even. When you add an engineers wage, benefits, cost of the facility, cost of the chain of management, the manditory unemployment insurance, the employers match on social security, cost of HR programs to keep the company insulated from lawsuits, the cost of product liability, keeping marginal employees, who do enough to keep from being fired, but no more.

I wonder how far ahead we would be if all the players, government, unions, corporations worked together?

[posix]

(I have a hunch and I forecast that I'll financially be worse off in the next 15 minutes.)

Now, having said all that, the smallest company I worked for (excluding the student years) was making 20.000.000 pounds a day. 1200 employees. Works out at 2083 pounds (around US $3000) per hour of each employees time (including janitors). And that's the SMALLEST one.

Now, isn't that just a tad disgusting. Yes the figures do sound impressive but then according to the (physics) laws of conservation of energy - that energy (or money) had to come from somewhere, or someONE. And when you have THAT much money coming in every day of the year, you must be making a helluva lot of people miserable, maybe in a minute way but nevertheless miserable.

And if everyone worked together we as a planet would go FAR. But that doesn't fit into the capitalist model of 5% population accumulating 95% of wealth and is a story for another thread. Back to financial forecasting.


Oops, I gotta go buy cigarettes, I ran out...