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More Than 500,000 High Tech Jobs Lost in 2002
stoolpigeon writes: "A study, released today by the AeA, shows that the U.S. high-tech industry lost 540,000 jobs in 2002, dropping from 6.5 million to 6.0 million. However, a preliminary look at data for 2003 shows that the decline in high-tech employment has slowed considerably this year."
Okay, who's submitting the stories from fark?
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
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On the subject of programmer jobs then the writing was on the wall anyway since the first visual GUI was invented and made the assembly programmers redundant ! But on a more serious note.... US trade deficit with the rest of the world is 500 billion (or in forex speak - 500 yards). In the end this means that you are exporting 500 billion dollars every year worth of someones labour. Doesn't take a genius to work out that at say USD 100,000 per job (including all the pensions and other costs) then this 500 billion could represent in US over 5 million jobs. Its the US consumer who's exporting those jobs.