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In SIlicon Valley: Profits up. Employment Down.
popo writes "The New York Times (free yada yada) has an interesting report on the changing landscape of Silicon Valley tech companies: Profits are soaring but employment figures are not. This dynamic points to significant future shifts down the road for Silicon Valley companies like Electronic Arts and Cisco. Interestingly, the culprit isn't just outsourcing. Huge leaps in worker productivity and automated processes are also responsible for the decreased need for new labor."
You're DAMN RIGHT I do!
My family has been over here for centuries, as have other families. Meanwhile, over in Africa, they're telling eachother that having sex with a virgin will cure AIDS. In China, they were letting the government walk all over them, telling them that freedom is bad. In Taiwan, they were too busy using crack and sleeping with prostitutes to notice the Industrial Revolution go whizzing by. And now, I'm being told that since these third world countries are willing to work in shit conditions for shit pay because, well, their ancestors couldn't give two shits about what they did, I'm going to have to take a pay cut or worse, lose my job.
I DO deserve the quality of life that I enjoy here in America, and I DO deserve the freedom, pay, and good job conditions that I get too. My parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents all fought and worked long and hard for it. Many died in the military for it. Do you think the only thing on their mind was themselves? That they didn't care about the future, about what their descendants would have to deal with? Guess what, buddy, they did. It's July motherfuckin' Fourth and I just got off of work. ON A FEDERAL HOLIDAY. If you think for ONE SECOND that Americans are lazy, well, we're not. Most of us DO work long and hard for our money, and it pisses us off to no great end when some country that had nothing better to do but shoot at eachother and get doped up for the past two centuries comes and takes all our jobs away.
If those motherfuckers overseas are willing to work for shit pay and live in shit housing and breathe heavy metals and asbestos all day, they have nobody to blame but THEMSELVES. Americans have ALWAYS worked hard since the founding of this country, and now, we're telling the powers that be that we're not willing to get paid shit and work in hazardous conditions anymore. We've done it for decades upon decades now, the upper-class has all the money they could ever need, and it's time to start sharing. Instead, they're moving on to the next shithole country to rip people off.
Want someone over here in America to be mad at? The upper class. The families that got where they are today by squandering money off of everyone else. You're damn right the working-class of America is pissed off about outsourcing, we put our blood, sweat, and tears into our work to see our employers say, "Sorry, you're not cheap enough!" and send the jobs over to India and us to the unemployment center.