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bsharma writes "The next round of globalization is sending upscale jobs offshore. They include basic research, chip design, engineering--even financial analysis. Can America lose these jobs and still prosper? Who wins? Who loses?" News.com has a related story about outsourcing.
I heard most of them were going to be moved to a call center in the far away country called Pennsylvania... =D
"The best laid plans of mice and men gang oft agley..." - ROBERT BURNS
I keep hearing stories fo school and community services being cut, while military services get more money and cooprate companies control the governemt.
If you're not the poster child for this statement, you ought to be.
We, as a nation, actually build very little on our own shores.
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Don't be so negative. Look at the profitable things we are good at, which we are keeping...
- Marketing
- Management
- Litigation
- Buzzwords
- TLA's
- Entertainment
- Intellectual property licensing
- Patents
- Creative Accounting Practices
- Monopoly building and maintenance
Because of these strengths, I predict that the countries with strong economies that need some of these functions, are not good at them (or don't want to touch them), and don't have local talent in these areas will outsource these functions back to the US.Those who would give up liberty in exchange for security and DRM should switch to Microsoft Palladium!
"When it gets down to it--talking trade balances here--once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries... there's only four things we do better than anyone else: music, movies, microcode (software), high-speed pizza delivery." -- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash.
Unfortunately, Neal was wrong, and software is moving to India, movies are moving to Australia, and our music sucks right now. But thank god, at least we still have the high-speed pizza delivery, and we probably always will.
The only way to improve the standard of living in other nations is to offer them jobs. If we want other nations to move beyond just farming and manufacturing we *must* make sure that we share the way we make wealth with them.
Ack, you complete twit! I don't happen to want to give my job to people in poorer nations, and I don't happen to care if they get ahead or not. No, I really don't. My first duty is to the country I live in, us peons and the twits who have the money and run the place, but mostly the peons. I could really care less if any other country ever comes out of the stone age and if they continue to sell us cheap raw materials and buy back expensive finished products made in my country by our industries and our technology, great, keep it coming.
I think the US should only import products and services it can't get locally, and if people want to import things that can be made locally, tax 'em so highly that their ears pop from the altitude and the pressure. And what the hell is this dealing with dictatorships and communist freedom-hating land masses deal? Why? Greed. Fuck that, let's give them some incentive to make their people free and stop trading until that 'human rights and freedoms' thing improves.
Do you really think that the mid east would be in the situation it is today if there was a wide diverse economy over there?
Maybe not, but that's Islam's fault, with the whole "if it agrees with the Koran it's redundant and if not it's heretical" attitude which caused Omar(?) to burn down the library at Alexandria and has kept them in the stone age ever since. They'd be even worse off if they weren't lucky enough to have a critical natural resource in plenty. And yes, I'm happy to buy oil, refine it, and sell back the resulting plastics etc. at a huge markup, and it wouldn't bother me much if the upcoming war was over oil if only people were honest about it, although I wouldn't place bets on Saddam not trying to stockpile weapons and go out with a bang (for great justice and many virgins with Allah).
Oh, it's about the Ross Perot type of giant sucking noise. For a moment I thought that Lewinsky and Clinton were at it again.
You forgot porn. We're REALLY REALLY great at making REALLY great porn. The world will beat a path to our shores to get our porn.
So, I suggest, forget IT, forget software, forget engineering, BECOME A PORN STAR!!
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