Possible Economy Disaster in Japan
Akki
All data and observation was done at 10/18/08 when this article was originally written. Sadly because of the bug, I couldn't post this till now.
Today, I have explored the human resource section of the market to see how much each of the companies is paying, especially near the Q1 section of the market. I was highly surprised by the amount many of the companies are offering to unskilled worker. However, at the same time I was astonished, I was horrified. Especially by the amount of pay the National Bank of Japan, a state owned companies were paying their workers. Here is a reason why, and my argument to the government and some of the private owners to change their policies to fit new V1 more properly.
First things first, I must say that the National Bank of Japan is indeed paying their workers too much. 2 yen per hour seems too much for unskilled workers, when the new calculation for the productivity has changed. They are getting too much considering the fact that they aren't producing many products. Also, National Bank of Japan should keep in mind that it is a state sponsored corporation, meaning that they should make sure their wages are lower than most other companies of Japan. By raising the pay of the national company, you are inflating the cost of the workers; especially when National Bank of Japan only covers manufacturing and constructing. YOU are forcing the other company to pay more for their workers, because there is competition for workers. It is generally agreed that the workers take job of the highest paying. Thus National Bank of Japan is purposefully making the environment unsuitable&nbs p;for the emerge of new companies by making the running cost of the companies high. It is evident that this in fact is true, by seeing how many of the raw material companies are suffering. Raw material companies are suffering, because the running cost of the company is increasing since they will have to pay more for their workers to run their business. This is also further reducing the amount of new workers to pursue the career in raw material.
The evidence of the negative affect of National Bank of Japan to over pay their workers is even more evident in the cost of raw materials. Currently, we only have few raw material companies in Japan, which are providing the Japanese economy. Seeing that the 1 unit of grain in Japan currently costs 1 yen, it is evident that those companies are paying their workers too much, which result in high running cost and high end cost for their products. It is evident that the way National Bank of Japan is paying 2 yen per worker has forced the raw material companies to pay 2 yen per worker, to attract more workers into the work. This is causing the soaring price of raw material. It is expected that the average cost of food will double within weeks. The inflation is to be expected, and the whole institution of Japanese economy may be ruined.
The needs for the more workers in raw material fields are quite evident. With rising price of food, and raw material, we can argue that the whole reason for the rising cost of the food and raw material is due to the fact that the Japanese Q1 companies are over paying their workers. When government owned business, which is supported and gave free money by printing more money, the whole market is suffering because of the inflation for the cost of each worker. If National Bank of Japan is really here for the Japanese people, and is here for the free market, they must give up their monopolizing effect in the Q1 field. Also, perhaps they should lower the pay of their companies to make it less attractive to future workers, to push more people into taking a job in raw field, or other private owned companies. By taking away workers from field of raw material and other Q1 field, National Bank of Japan is causing more negative affect to Japanese economy than for the better.
Company owners also, must understand that the companies run differently in V1. The doctrine of more workers equal more productivity is no longer true. By having more than the recommended amount of workers, is actually lowering your overall productivity. This was made clear by the admins. You are doing your company more harm than for the better by recruiting more workers, by raising the cost of running. In addition, by offering job at human resource market when having no need to increase your work force, are inflating and causing more harm to the overall economy than for the better. You are harming your company as well as other companies by taking such action. It is raising the overall cost of production. When these troubles build up too much, we will see a collapse of the current institution which we have built up for. This must be avoided. I highly suggest each company in Japan to stop recruiting more workers into your companies when there are enough workers. Also, I believe it is for the betterment of the companies to cut their work force to allow for the maximum productivity, and also allowing more workers into such companies which are starting.
I believe that we ought to pursue some of the policy of encouragement of smaller companies to run the Japanese economy, my core doctrine and theory mentioned during the time of Beta. Now that increasing work force beyond certain limit is actually decreasing the productivity, it is only natural to say that smaller and mid sized companies benefiting from this bonus is much better than the big company with no productivity bonus at all. Also, since new cost of making a company is 20 gold, it shows that it is naturally more encouraging to make company in V1 than it was in Beta, with burden of high cost of start up removed. Many small to mid sized companies will allow for more competition, and allow for the price of the commodity to fall with lowering operation cost, thus bringing more ease to our economy. It will also cause more diversification for our economy allowing for easier environment for building new companies. It will seem more attractive for foreign investors and immigrants in erepublik also, if we stabilize our economy fastest, and ensure low food cost. The government must support these new company owners and their business by stop inflating the human resource market. This is also true to other bigger business owners which is recruiting more workers when they require no more. Now in V1, we must increase the number of companies in eJapan. This is for the betterment of our economy. Possible business owners must be supported for the investment in new companies and new business, allowing for the market in Japan to grow.
I apologize in advance that my ideas and beliefs may be changing little by little as the day goes on. Perhaps some may think me as flip-flopper. However, this naturally is due to the fact that erepublik is changing day to days also, with new stuff admin changes or tweaks, with no real solidness yet seen. I am still learning V1 like all others are, and I am thinking like all to take full advantages of V1 for the betterment of ourselves and our country. With current instability in market, it seems highly silly for the Japan to increase pay and benefit to workers, when that is placing many burdens on the company owners. Some may argue it is crucial time to support the workers of the Japan, who is the most important part of our economy. However, no matter how much we support the workers, unless we fix all the core and bases of the problem, it will never be finished. Thus the workers must come to the second concern until the whole economy is fixed, by stabilizing the core of the provider of the market, the company owners. I ask the government to take immediate action to fix this as fast as possible. We must stop trying to kill our economy by ourselves.
This Article is based completely on opinion and Ideology of Akki, and has nothing to do with the current policies of ULJ.
Comments
it also seems to me that our government does not have to much money:
idea:
open orgs run by trustworthe people of ejapan (king waseem agent orginal etc etc) in other countries such as USA, Spain, and more importanly rich nations, we will hire low and all send 80% of the income to the state of japan
i THINK is will work well, for i am not 100% sure
@Ice_Freeze
I think the mod said that you can now make companies in other countries in V1 also. My personal suggestion for the government is to lower the income tax in all of the field, and raise import tax on grain. This could successfully advertise Japan to be good place to come for the foreign investors or workers. Also, if government isn't getting enough money by lowering all the income tax, we can provably increase the Value Added Tax to counter it. We must show that Japan is a land of opportunity and success.
about Nippon overpaying, don't forget that our minimum wage now is 2jpy.. its in the law already...
Nope I just checked it. the minimal wage is still 1 Yen.
About Nippon: The wages in general stay at 2 jpy it doesnt get raised. Except for Nippon Medical because that is the only hospital company. So in the end people will always leave to get a better paid job. This is the best way to make sure no one is without a job.
You also shouldnt forget that unskilled workers get skilled pretty quick. So if you dont raise there salaries it will even it self out.
2jpy is the standard minimum wage used in most company but most companies aren't Q1. So i dont think Nippon is making it hard for other companies to find workers. The Q1 sector is also a very hard sector to work in and company often upgrade to fast to have a stable Q1 market.
So i dont think they are getting over payed and you also shouldn't forget that prices will increase because of raw materials.
you should remember increasing cost of raw material is because all of those companies are Q1. thus their is Q1 sector right now, which is suffering because of Nippon. running cost for the company must be kept down, especially for raw material companies that they can bring the price of commodity down in Japan. thus to do that, we must make sure more workers end up in raw material companies.
Im not talking about prices in raw materials but prices in the manufacturing sector. people will need to pay more for their food so they will need higher pay.
if we can lower the cost of raw material and lower the amount of inflation, we would not have to worry about such increase in pay. That is where I am getting at. unless we can fix this, the price will continue to soar in incredible rate. that is happening all over the erepublik world. lucky Japan is still easy hit.
Hmm Ok.
As soon as I get the option to change taxes my plan will be put into effect.
i think we just have to wait. the reason why raw materials are expensive right now is because there is not enough skill to produce lots of quantities. give it a month and i'm expecting raw materials to go for .2 - .3 jpy.
just to clarify cost for any company is always DECREASING. this is because each day a worker works his skill increases increasing his productivity. to illustrate say i get hired today for 3 jpy. my salaries dont adjust everyday. it will probably adjust every 2 weeks to a month. with that said during the time that my salaries do not increase cost decreases because i am more productive by the day.
plus the 2 jpy salary of NBJ is ok. it actually helps private companies. I suppose that the 2 jpy salary does not change at all therefore what private corporations should do is to offer 3 jpy to skilled workers. the infusion of a skilled worker to a private company is actually more beneficial than hiring someone with no skill. therefore for small companies to survive they only have to pay 3 jpy minimum for workers with good skill. this is actually better than starting to hire at 1 jpy because of the longer return to investment as opposed to a skilled worker who has established good productivity.
all in all, we just have to wait it out for a while because raw materials is not yet settled. i see no reason for the NBJ to recruit. when it comes to blocking entry of new companies I don't think they are doing so. what most people forget is that aside from the 20 gold to establish a company you need around 300 jpy to sustain your operations for the first few slow days of production.
what we can actually do is to remove the raise income taxes of manufacturing and construction more than raw materials. so the take home pay of workers in raw materials is bigger to compensate for the lesser pay raw mats workers are receiving now
However, what we are doing with NBJ is hindering the development and emerge of new companies, which could perhaps one day become the Q4 company of Japan.
Actually, the lowest price that I can set the grain is 1 JPY. It's not because of the salary, it's because of a bug. When trying to enter below 1 JPY, it wont' accept it and showing an error message. I will try to change it again if this bug's already fixed. Will reply again on the result.
I just tried changing it again to below 1 JPY and it still won't let me. It says "Please type a correct price".
very strange....
The decimals aren't working and admin aren't doing anything about it or are unable to.
akki. what nbj is doing does not hinder new companies. it in fact helps them. instead of absorbing unskilled employees private companies can have the luxury of employing skilled/trained workers who have gone through nbj. plus, prices of nippon foods is actually pretty high. if they wanted to block the entry of new companies they'd sell food dirt cheap.
You must know that when they create skilled workers, most will never take a job in Q1 field and go directly to Q2, thus it creates burden to Q1 companies hoping to rise up, since NBJ take away their possible workers. We should let private mid sized Q1 companies handle training of Q1 workers. this will create more new companies, and more investment to Japan.
Also, to isupply; I really think you should cut some of your work force in Yoshinoya. You are making your company less productive by having more workers. Might I suggest to you, that maybe it's time to invest to create more companies?
http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Productivity#Productivity
Okay, this is really stupid. I just got my SO converted into an Org and was about to celebrate until I checked my companies. I can no longer set the amount of product to sell and their price. It totally disappear.
I own an iron comp BRAND NEW i need workers, not really planning on taking any from japan, but if the gov wanted to support me (at least for a little bit) in a couple days i could sell iron to japan very cheap (as long as i can still make a small profit in japan, i dont want to go over)
I would need gold to buy the rights to sell to japan, i wouldnt do it right away though cause lets see how suss. i get here in indo
The decimals are now working but companies owned by recently converted organization from beta SO are experiencing numerous bugs. I already posted the problems above with my second post as 'Shinko Securities'. It seems like that the conversion is a bit incomplete.
yay decimals.
nope. workers are not driven by company quality they are driven by wages. an example would be a 3 skill worker getting the same wages in a q1 and q2 company. it costs more to work in a q2 company so it would actually benefit him to work for a q1 company.
plus with the new capacity system workers that are not accommodated by q2 companies will fall to q1 companies.