Inquisitor Kitchner
Galaxy Punks
Executive Outcomes
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Posted - 2014.04.30 18:18:00 -
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Dinsdale Pirannha wrote:
You what also is not boring?
Not your posts?
Seriously though, let's take a look at RL for a second.
60 years ago the UK was a manufacturer, it made things. Then ~economics~ happened and the manufacturing got shut and moved where the labour was cheap. Now China's economy is growing in the next 5-10 years it's like manufacturing will move again.
10 years ago everyone was talking about shutting down their call centres and moving them to India for cheaper labour. Now all the outsourced call centres are in the philippines. NOW they are moving back because the lower cost isn't worth the hassle they get from their customers.
In central Europe, three well known car manufacturers that directly compete with each other have teamed up because they can pool their resources to produce their goods dirt cheap, and then simply compete on the market.
For years now the American government has been funneling money into it's uncompetitive industries to keep them afloat. If you produce in empire space you've chosen to produce somewhere where the government believes in free trade (at least for capsuleers). If nullsec "governments" want to funnel money into making their production competitive then so be it.
There is a famous saying which is capital knows no boundries. Money goes where it is best to invest, and when there is somewhere better it moves.
In EVE there are no restrictions on moving your capital around on a daily basis, or at least very little costs. Don't you think for one second that if companies were able to up sticks and move in a day they wouldn't do it more often if it suited them.
I suspect in practice what will happen is everyone will start clumped together with the teams concetrated, and slowly one by one people will move somewhere cheaper. Eventually those ones will become tens, hundreds and you get what happened in China, a mad rush to move all your production there. Eventually you help the economy by providing paying jobs and you need to compete more, pay more for both staff and local materials. Eventually one person says "Hey, we could save money by moving here you know..." and the whole thing happens again.
As long as you don't have to up sticks and move every month or so I can't see how it's any different from real life, albeit it's more crudley implemented here for reasons of complexity.
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