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US Call-Center Jobs — That Pay $100K a Year
bheer writes "BusinessWeek profiles a call center company called iQor which has grown revenues 40% year-on-year by (shock) treating employees as critical assets. It's done this not by nickel-and-diming, but by expanding its US operations (13 centers across the US now), giving employees universal health insurance, and paying salaries and bonuses that are nearly 50% above industry norms. The article notes that outsourcing will continue and globalization will continue to change the world's economic landscape. 'But the US is hardly helpless. With smart processes and the proper incentives, US companies can keep jobs here in America, and do so in a way that is actually better for the company and its employees.' Now if only other companies get a clue as well."
What industry finds call center work so valuable that they can pay iQor enough to pay its employees so well?
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> universal health insurance is what Canadian and European residents get
> No, it makes sense.
Sorry you are wrong on this one. Yes from a pure language standpoint you are correct, but that misses the forest for the trees. The phrase "Universal Health Care" now has a very specific political meaning and it is a veritable certainty that the person writing the article was fully aware of that, especially in the current time frame. Right now "Universal Health Care" is a non starter because the public associates it with the horrors of Canada and Europe. So the 5th column is working the phrase into stories in ways that are positive in an attempt to reform the term.
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> Certainly none of them are being forced or coerced,...
But if we accept the 'Right' argument SOMEONE must be forced or coerced. If not the Dr. then taxpayers. And if it IS a 'Right' then the Dr. is morally obligated to be a servant should the State stop paying him. And that is the point I was going at, sorry if I didn't make it clearly enough. That is you have a 'Right' to healthcare then you have the right to walk up to a Dr. and demand he serve you whether he will be compensated or not. And that is how we know it isn't a Right, because it requires a claim on the labor or property of another in a way a real Right doesn't. Again, you Right to Free Speech makes zero demands on your fellow citizens other than they NOT oppress you by taking your life, liberty or property away from you for exercising a fundamental Right.
> All rights are human inventions. To pretend otherwise is meaningless.
Not unless you buy into moral relativism. But that is bullcrap and has lead to horrors every time the notion has taken hold somewhere. A is A. Good and Evil are real. We might still be discovering the Truth but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. And btw, that imperfection in our knowledge of morality is why we aren't yet ready for a real Libertarian society. Doesn't mean we shouldn't head towards Liberty though, we do know enough to know the grass is greener in that direction and we can keep working on the details.
> And all rights are meaningless without at least the possibility of having the means and ability
> to make use of them. First and foremost that means actually staying alive and in good health.
And that line of 'reasoning' also implies the rest of the welfare state. You need food, shelter, education... before long an XBox is a 'basic right.' Been there, done that. We know that way leads to the madness of mass populations of the useless, dependent on handouts for their existence.
Not saying charity isn't a good thing, only that government welfare isn't charity and corrodes the human spirit in ways private charity doesn't.
> This is not a *new* idea...
No it isn't. Socialism, Fascism, Communism, Progrissivism, etc. are old ideas that have been tried and found wanting. The hundred million mass graves, the millions more war dead should have been sufficient to convince any sane person, but alas. The idea of a select elite guiding the poor masses is such a seductive idea (for both the select and the poor masses who get freebies) that it just doesn't seem to die regardless how many times it fails.
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