The fact that you make these kind of videos available to everyone free of charge is something I love about the 21st century :). Also, good comment about your wife (I hope she watches your videos :)).
A thought-provoking series. Thanks! (Also for taking the time away from your company to make these). Most Dutch persons I know are good at written & spoken English, albeit with a tell-tale accent but you are exceptional - better even than most native English speakers, and eloquent too. May I ask if you have had training in elocution/debates in English, or have you perhaps stayed for a portion of your formative years in an English-speaking land? ..And how does linguistics/ philosophy/ economics tie-in into (of all things) power-electronics?
Thanks! But being able to edit out obvious mispronunciations does help ;) And as with most of these things; practice makes perfect. I'm not particularly talented in most things, but put enough hours towards something and you'll get good at it. Very early on in my life I really liked English and I happened to live in more or less the perfect country to feed that interest. It's a hobby. And as for the interest in other topics; same thing, I like it and think it's valuable, so almost automatically you start putting time towards that interest.
A production person paid more than an engineer? When I come from, an engineer is the one responsible for the production process; so if an engineer doesn’t do their job right, the production person will have issues. That said, it makes perfect sense for the engineer to be paid more.
Obviously the example is... provocative, but if you regard a production assistant not as a subordinate but as an artisan (i.e. somebody who has honed a craft and can add their own experience to a process - and doesn't just follow instructions), there is a genuine case to be made that the production staff has more direct and therefore more highly weighted responsibility towards the end customer. If you go solely by compensation according to responsibility, there's a case to be made for higher compensation of craftspeople. And in some markets, this is actually true - e.g. consider pipe welders vs. pipe materials and construction engineers. I can work at BAM for about 70k/yr as a construction engineer, or as a pipe welder for 150k/yr. In this particular instance, the craft and the massive cost of failure makes it so only the very best welders get these jobs, even though the work they do is conceptually simple and definitely not beyond production crew.
@@PowerElectronicsBlog hard to find artisans in production; even if you do, they'll definitely be engineers at heart! As for welding... that's an art al by itself!
If the production person doesn't do their job right the company will also have issues. E.g. no products or defective ones. So how's that different from the engineering person not doing their job right?
I am in the process of starting a business in northern Greece, taking advantage of EU’s “Just Transition Fund”. It will be processing big lithium batteries, and output energy storage products and such. Would like to get in touch, I’ve sent you a couple of emails.
Indirect influence is not something you can really count. Where do you stop or start? E.g. if it wasn't for Nissan making Leafs Muxsan wouldn't exist. Does that mean Nissan is responsible for your company and you are not?
Indeed; social reason ARE much more important, however, when the state comes over and incentivizes businesses, there are numerous that pop up solely to crunch on the free money. I am in Greece, and it’s been like everyone started their own coffee shop business for years now, up until COVID. I really don’t see any social economics behind a coffee shop.
Yes the owner of a company took the risk, he or she could fail because of his decisions, or out of his hands circumstance like the running of the economy ( Government / share market ) none the less he took the chance with his time and money and deserves all the profit he makes if the gamble pays off, he shouldn't be a target of the government to get extra tax, and the role of the employee is to do as closely as possible to what his employee says as at the end of the day if the owner of the business fails he has to know its because of his decisions ( or the running of the economy / financial markets ( macroeconomics )) and learn by that
The fact that you make these kind of videos available to everyone free of charge is something I love about the 21st century :). Also, good comment about your wife (I hope she watches your videos :)).
A thought-provoking series. Thanks! (Also for taking the time away from your company to make these).
Most Dutch persons I know are good at written & spoken English, albeit with a tell-tale accent but you are exceptional - better even than most native English speakers, and eloquent too. May I ask if you have had training in elocution/debates in English, or have you perhaps stayed for a portion of your formative years in an English-speaking land? ..And how does linguistics/ philosophy/ economics tie-in into (of all things) power-electronics?
Thanks! But being able to edit out obvious mispronunciations does help ;)
And as with most of these things; practice makes perfect. I'm not particularly talented in most things, but put enough hours towards something and you'll get good at it. Very early on in my life I really liked English and I happened to live in more or less the perfect country to feed that interest. It's a hobby.
And as for the interest in other topics; same thing, I like it and think it's valuable, so almost automatically you start putting time towards that interest.
A production person paid more than an engineer? When I come from, an engineer is the one responsible for the production process; so if an engineer doesn’t do their job right, the production person will have issues. That said, it makes perfect sense for the engineer to be paid more.
Obviously the example is... provocative, but if you regard a production assistant not as a subordinate but as an artisan (i.e. somebody who has honed a craft and can add their own experience to a process - and doesn't just follow instructions), there is a genuine case to be made that the production staff has more direct and therefore more highly weighted responsibility towards the end customer. If you go solely by compensation according to responsibility, there's a case to be made for higher compensation of craftspeople. And in some markets, this is actually true - e.g. consider pipe welders vs. pipe materials and construction engineers. I can work at BAM for about 70k/yr as a construction engineer, or as a pipe welder for 150k/yr. In this particular instance, the craft and the massive cost of failure makes it so only the very best welders get these jobs, even though the work they do is conceptually simple and definitely not beyond production crew.
@@PowerElectronicsBlog hard to find artisans in production; even if you do, they'll definitely be engineers at heart! As for welding... that's an art al by itself!
If the production person doesn't do their job right the company will also have issues. E.g. no products or defective ones. So how's that different from the engineering person not doing their job right?
I really love these. Thanks!
When's your campervan coming out?
I am in the process of starting a business in northern Greece, taking advantage of EU’s “Just Transition Fund”. It will be processing big lithium batteries, and output energy storage products and such. Would like to get in touch, I’ve sent you a couple of emails.
Indirect influence is not something you can really count. Where do you stop or start? E.g. if it wasn't for Nissan making Leafs Muxsan wouldn't exist. Does that mean Nissan is responsible for your company and you are not?
Indeed; social reason ARE much more important, however, when the state comes over and incentivizes businesses, there are numerous that pop up solely to crunch on the free money. I am in Greece, and it’s been like everyone started their own coffee shop business for years now, up until COVID. I really don’t see any social economics behind a coffee shop.
Yes the owner of a company took the risk, he or she could fail because of his decisions, or out of his hands circumstance like the running of the economy ( Government / share market ) none the less he took the chance with his time and money and deserves all the profit he makes if the gamble pays off, he shouldn't be a target of the government to get extra tax, and the role of the employee is to do as closely as possible to what his employee says as at the end of the day if the owner of the business fails he has to know its because of his decisions ( or the running of the economy / financial markets ( macroeconomics )) and learn by that
Value VS Price... please, don’t start on crypto...
Are you an intp