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The Extinction of the Programming Species
Max Goff writes "Given the recent chatter surrounding the extinction of the U.S. programmer, /. readers might also be interested in a series of articles I recently penned for java.net -- the Blacksmith and the Bookkeeper (part 1, part 2 and part 3) -- in which I posit that the postmodern programmer (the entire sub-species, not just those domiciled in the U.S.) shares much with the
blacksmith of old, and will become just as extinct in relatively short order. It is not due to work visas or outsourcing, but has much more to do with the evolution of work itself."
Adapt or die.
If you don't like that idea, too damned bad, that's capitalism.
I tried to RTFA, but it was so incredibly boring I couldn't stand it.
For him it did. He is part of the ever growing business tactic of "declining and falling" the US programmer. He outsourced most of his development work for his company to bangalore, injuh quite a long time ago.
As long as companies get tax breaks to outsource, whether it's a blue collar widget or one of ya'alls "widgets", they will do it. As long as people refuse to notice that their cost of living doesn't go away and the cost of trinkets they "save" on doesn't equate or surpass those still standard costs, you will see it get *suckier*. it is the most basic of economics, absuredly simple to see. People have refused, they clung desparately to their delusions that they would 1.2.3 PROFIT, that they missed the forest for the trees it appears. That's reality, people traded the globalists magic beans of new cheap shiny trinkets for the decent work and still affordable US made stuff cow, because they got sold the "greed thing",it got dangled out and they took the bait, bit dowen hard, ran with it the economy is "reeling" with the sing of outflowing jobs and cash. but, this is called a 'strong economy dag nabbit!"
Ha! About the most successful human congame ever invented. It never fails, offer people a lot of something for apparently nothing, they will swap. The trick is to convince them that what they have is worthless, in this case, a huge range of middle class still useful jobs, millions of them. That was the swap dangled out, cheaper goods at the stores in exchange for giving up your job and learning something new or..whatever, that part they left out too. Poly tickshunbs are always big on the 'I will create new jobs!', but when you hold them down they got no answers other than saying those words over and over again.
You can't have it both ways, either buy US in all your business dealings, your day to day life, or suck it up and suffer when your job goes buh bye. Be content to have high cost of living in exchange for cheaper consumer goods. You are on your own if you have no money though, then it becomes tough luck, too bad.
Oh? It's too late for that, you can't buy US and keep the loot recirculating internally where it magnifies over and over again building middle class society? You say most everything is built overseas now?
Ya, I noticed that stuff, noticed it 25 years ago and wrote and warned against it then. Told white collars they would be next, about zee-ro believed it because they are "too special" and "no one" can do what they do and etc, etc. Why, stock trading would replace work! I heard that, too, a lot. americans were going to be the worlds managers, white collar only, all the jobs secure..because of.....they never explained that part. or they mumble the magic word "capitalism" like saying that over and over will somehow do the trick. And with computers, all we need are bits and bytes, nothing tangible is needed for existence! It's worth billions, and you can just type up reality!
For some reason, according to them folks, what I was told, billions of people all over the planet were just going to shuffle around and go "yass massah" and do our bidding, no one would need to work beyond "management" or maybe "sales". IT was just gonna be the new interest, sort of a national hobby we could do on the side to get even richer, because it was all going to be from "investing" somehow, back to "stocks". You see, no one needs to work, just them "other folks" who live way over yonder someplace, they are supposed to be doing all the work, and you just get a check, a BIG one!
That was the theory
It has been embarassing to me to watch it happen.
humph, but hey,cheer up! You can always stop by walmart and pick up some cheap trinkets with your... oh ya, no check..sorry dude....well the government has some plans to "help you out" of your dilemma as you re-retrain for the future! sorry about that college degree, here, try this method.........
Now, step into this nice room here and we'll show you.....
"MOM, what's for DINNER!1?!"
"Here kids, have a nice bowl of nutritious soylent green stew, with some nice recycled cardboard bread and sludge butter"
"YAAAAAA!"
Alarmist Bull Puckey. About half of the "working age" population are women, so subtract the stay-at-home moms and the working moms who choose to be home when the kids get home from school, and the picture looks a little less severe. Then subtract the maternity leave population. Then subtract the full and part-time students who work part time out of necessity. Then subtract the early retirees. Then subtract the seasonal workers who hunker down off-season. Then subtract the already known floating population of the temporarily unemployed. Then subtract the self employed small business people. Get the picture?
Your world where 100% of the working age population must slave away at a full time day job to keep the economy going exists only in the propaganda of liberal left wing social engineers.