blazen69 wrote:
I think the main problem is that we live in a culture of
laziness.We are force fed those shallow reality tv shows,
that promise instant fame or fortune.Why work for it when
you can get it overnight?Except it doesn't actually work that
way.They usually end up getting chewed up and spit out in the
end.
It's like my grandfather used to say,anything worth doing
is hard work.I also have many tradespeople in my family.My
old man is a plumber, and 75% of his work comes from fixing
other plumbers screw ups.I find that allot of people don't care
about quality nowadays.
It's not all bad though.After all, were here because we like
Mr.H's music, which is the antithesis of all that.
I'm done with my moaning now.
I know what you mean! No one is encouraged to work at their craft these days.
Problem with this country is short termism. Very few companies want to train people properly, because they know at the end of training the employee will look for a better paid job, so they just don't want to invest the money in the worker. The German apprenticeship system seems to work well though, or at least did in the 90's.
I do think that the Government should introduce a really comprehensive technology policy to make sure that there is a diffusion of skills throughout industry. If more companies offered training programmes (it would help solve the problem I mentioned above) and received incentives for offering them, it could only benefit industry.
Banks are short term in their outlook too. They would rather give a business an overdraft than a loan, then they can call in the repayment of the overdraft far quicker than a loan. In Japan, banks will actually buy shares in a business they loan to and sit on their board's, thus taking a much longer term approach and taking an interest in the long term success of a business.
Oops!
Gone on a bit! This is a bit of a pet subject of mine, as I devoted a lot of my degree to this area.