No entanto, também sabemos que é o caminho menos percorrido.
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Praticar o Evangelho do Valor não é fácil, requer paciência, requer uma travessia inicial do deserto, requer remar contra a maré, requer ser DIFERENTE.
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Por isso, infelizmente, a maioria das empresas, por instinto, por tradição, por dar ouvidos aos senhores da tríade, by default, acaba a competir pelo preço mais baixo.
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Só que competir pelo preço mais baixo não é para quem quer, é para quem pode.
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Por isso, ao longo dos anos, tantas e tantas empresas sucumbiram uma após a outra na batalha do preço.
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Contudo, desde há alguns anos, talvez a partir deste postal de Agosto de 2008, comecei a levar a sério o fenómeno do refluxo da maré da globalização.
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Sim, começa a haver novamente cada vez mais mercado para as empresas de bens transaccionáveis que competem no mercado do preço mais baixo. Porquê? Por causa do aumento dos custos salariais na Ásia, aliado ao custo dos transportes, e ao custo dinheiro. Um sintoma:
"Taiwanese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn will double the minimum monthly salary of its workers in mainland China by the end of next year, reports our Chinese-language sister paper Want Daily.Uma hipótese de explicação (há mais, como a produção desviada das exportações para alimentar o mercado interno com cada vez mais poder de compra):
Earlier this month in Shanghai, Foxconn chairman and president Terry Gou announced that the company's salaries in China will exceed the minimum wage in Taiwan by the end of the year. Media commentators said this means that salaries will have to be increased from the current levels of 2,200 yuan (US$350) to 4,000 yuan (US$630), a rise of 82%.
Sources now claim that Gou declared at a function on May 16 that simply catching up to Taiwanese wages is not enough, and that monthly salaries for workers in China should be doubled to 4,400 yuan (US$690) by the end of 2013. If the claim proves to be true, this would be Foxconn's fourth announced salary hike in China in the last two years. It would also represent a near five-fold salary increase for the company's 1 million workers on the mainland since 2010."
"There are two important pressures that Foxconn faces neither of which have anything at all to do with various student groups demanding that Apple force wage rises.
The first is that there is actually a shortage of labour in some of the parts of China where Foxconn has facilities. The point is so obvious that even Karl Marx managed to get it right. When there’s a shortage of labour then capitalists will raise the wages they offer so as to give them the labour that they require: attracting it away from other lower paying employers.
The second is that Foxconn is embarking on automating its lines. Terry Gou has said often enough that he wants to put in 300,000 robots in the short term and a million in the medium term. And the labour you need to run an automated factory is very different indeed from the labour you need to run a hand production line. Which brings us to Ford’s $5 a day wages again.
This was absolutely nothing at all to do with creating a middle class who could purchase his products. Nor about his own workers being able to purchase his products. It was about reducing the turnover of workers."