Chapter 735 (1/2)
Simon arrived in Washington at two o'clock in the afternoon. The White House had a grand reception. Clinton and his wife, Vice President Al Gore, new Senate majority leader Bob Dole and New House Speaker Newt Gingrich came forward together.
Referring to the identities of several people, Simon can roughly see the Republican Party's intention to woo him.
Otherwise, because of the position of Simon Democratic Party's important supporters, the Republican Party will definitely send representatives to participate in this meeting, but it is impossible for the two newly powerful congressional leaders to attend together.
The Clintons and Vice President Gore need not say much.
Bob Dole is Simon's competitor in the 1996 US presidential election.
This 71 year old veteran Republican politician began to pave the way for his presidential campaign after Clinton took office. Therefore, he did not hesitate to show Clinton that he could reach a compromise in advance. When he came to vote, he suddenly turned back and directly spoiled the health care reform bill pushed by the Clintons in every way.
The Democratic Party's disastrous defeat in the mid-term election and the failure of health care reform is a very critical factor.
The Clintons had been promoting the health care reform bill on a large scale as an important campaign promise to the voters, but it ended in failure, which inevitably produced a serious negative effect that the more they won, the more they fell.
Of course, the reason for the Democratic Party's disastrous defeat in the midterm election is far more than that. If you want to make it clear, you may need to write a large volume.
Bob Dole is Simon's favorite type of politician.
Standard Neo conservative politicians advocate tax cuts and deregulation of corporate giants, and they are tactful enough and selfish enough to be affected.
Another new speaker of the house of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, is aggressive.
This 51 year old Republican congressman, who is also a veteran politician in his prime of life, has frequently taken confrontational measures to stir up disputes between the two parties since he entered the Congress in the 1970s. In the past two years, he has also restricted Clinton from fulfilling the promises he made to the voters during the election campaign by almost non discriminatory means.
Instead of going to the famous Oval Office of the White House, they went to an ordinary reception room on the West Wing of the White House.
After the waiter delivered coffee and snacks, he quietly withdrew, leaving only six people in the reception room.
To Simon's surprise, it was Hillary who started the conversation first.
”Simon, before you came here, we were still discussing the outsourcing platform to be launched by igrit. In any case, Newt didn't believe that this platform could provide tens of millions of job opportunities every year. I read the information on the official website in advance, but I didn't quite understand it. Could you explain it to us?”
Simon casually held a cup of coffee, heard Hillary speak, and looked at the other four men without any trace.
Clinton's face was as usual, Gore was unheard of, Bob Dole was smiling, only Newt Gingrich, who was named by Clinton, frowned slightly.
Hillary is known for her strength.
Most of the contents of the failed health care reform bill were drafted by Hillary Clinton's team, so the media frequently accused his wife of interfering in politics. According to Simon's information, the failure of the health care reform bill also caused the rift between the couple to a large extent.
Now.
As you can imagine, the four Washington bigwigs certainly don't want Hillary to be involved in this kind of occasion.
The first lady not only ignored the pressure of the four bigwigs and insisted on staying, but also took the lead in stirring up the topic. By the way, he dug a hole for Newt Gingrich without any trace.
It's strong enough.
With this in mind, Simon sipped his coffee and said frankly with a smile: ”in fact, this kind of description is a bit of a sneak concept. It is definitely impossible to create a 10 million level job. What outsourcing platforms can provide are relatively short-term part-time jobs, which may be completed in an hour or two. According to this calculation method, there will be more than ten million level job opportunities every year in the future. ”
Clinton continued to ignore the men around her and asked, ”can there be a million jobs converted by standard working hours?”
Simon shook his head directly: ”no, Hillary. Igrit outsourcing platform is essentially a part-time platform, just to make up for the lack of human resources in Silicon Valley, and outsource relatively low-end jobs, so as to save costs. Therefore, this platform is more suitable for school students who need to earn living expenses and housewives who make money to subsidize their families in their spare time. If someone wants to live on this platform, it's OK, but it requires certain professional skills. ”
Simon is not a big man in Washington. He doesn't need to pay attention to domestic employment all the time, and he will never be fat in front of these people, so he should be honest.
One million jobs, how can it be that easy?
In my memory, Wal Mart had only 2 million employees around the world at its peak.
However, although it can not provide 1 million jobs, it is not a big problem that the number of registered members of igrit outsourcing platform will exceed one million in the next few years. It's just, as Simon and Hillary said, it's just part-time after all. The number of registered members reaches one million, and it's good to have one tenth of the active users in daily life.This is almost equivalent to 100000 jobs.
Noticing Hillary's apparent disappointment, Newt Gingrich, who had just been named, suddenly uttered a sharp voice and said to Simon, ”it seems that this is really just a gimmick.”
Simon smiles and shrugs. ”If you have to think that, Newt, it's true.”
Bob Dole noticed some of Newt Gingrich's signs and said, ”Simon, I still don't understand this Outsourcing platform. However, since anyone in the Federation can find a job on the platform, it must be a good thing. Can you tell me more about it? ”
Simon thought for a moment and said, ”Amazon, Bob, you should know?”
Bob Dole nodded.
Simon said: ”Amazon is expanding its product range in the near future. In addition to books, videos and movies, it will also add clothing, cosmetics and other types. All of these products need a special introduction page. At present, the technology can not automatically generate millions of commodity catalog, so it needs to be filled manually. In addition, there are image classification, web page tagging, and other similar basic outsourcing tasks. Anyone who has an Internet connected computer and knows English can receive work orders. ”
When Simon finished, Bob Dole said with a smile, ”that sounds great. It really suits everyone.”
Vice President Al Gore asked, ”Simon, what's your hourly salary?”
Simon turned to gore and said, ”it depends on the proficiency of the operator and the level of outsourcing tasks. The most basic filling, marking or classification I just mentioned is that the hourly salary will not be too high. If part-time workers are willing to take time to teach themselves some programming skills, their income will certainly be larger than that of being a waiter in a restaurant. ”
Simon didn't give an accurate figure, and people can probably guess that the average hourly wage will certainly not meet the federal minimum wage standard.
Bill Clinton, who has just been silent, finally interjected: ”Simon, many of these job opportunities of outsourcing platform should be taken away by overseas part-time workers, right?”
Simon didn't expect the president to hit the nail on the head.
According to the assessment made by igritte's team in advance, the hourly salary for the most basic outsourcing task is only about $1 to $3, which can be described as poor for local part-time workers in the United States. However, if they are overseas part-time workers in economically underdeveloped areas, their exchange rate may be higher than their regular income.
Take China for example.
If someone in China can connect to the Internet and sign up for igrit outsourcing platform members, even if they take the most basic tasks and work for 10 hours a day according to the minimum hourly salary of US $1, the exchange rate may be equivalent to the salary of many people in China for 10 days and a half months.
In fact, most of the tasks of igrit outsourcing platform are mainly part-time workers facing overseas underdeveloped areas.