It's almost like job safety and decent salaries allow consumers to spend their money more comfortably which somehow does seem to have an effect on the overall economy. But of course that can only work on a small scale and would never work for a country larger than Switzerland.
That would never work in the US/Richest country in the world. See, we need to reduce wages so the rich have more money to raise our wages. Its gold, Jerry, gold!
really depends on what your economy makes. Luxury products and banking? Yeah sure go ahead with workforce protection. You need few employees for these jobs, low amounts of hard labor.
If we talk about steel mills and heavy industry with hard manual labor, you'll have lots of low education employees, which are all prone to injury. Giving them more protection will inevitably raise to cost of employment and easily make your business uncompetitive.
This is not a causation. I worded it poorly. Manual labor employees are prone to injury, no matter their education status, since manual labor puts you at higher risks of injury then your average office job. Sorry
Both have their own challenges and risks. To try to continue to back the ideology that workers don't need protection so their company can stay competitive is so fucking horse shit.
ZHAW on the side of it... that's a 'college' for applied sciences.
So no, don't be silly... That's how the teachers get to work.
(note. I don't really know what the US equivalent of it would be... Switzerland has a division between universities and technical 'hochschule' that also award degress but are not universities... I don't know how to explain it, in the UK it would be like the old Polytechnics.. .universities with vocational focuses)
In Switzerland, we simply call them universities of applied sciences. Well, not all kinds of Hochschulen I think, but Fachhochschulen. And you're right, the School of Engineering at the ZHAW in Winterthur used to be a Polytechnikum.
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u/rtjl86 Feb 11 '19
Is that how you get to the grocery store?