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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."
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..for making paid IT-personal superfluous.
Well that's a load of rubbish. I've worked my share of 80+ hour weeks, and productivity doesn't go down. Do you have some sort of defective brain that things 'ahah, 41 hours, time to go to sleep'? My productivity kept on pretty much as normal. No 'cancelling out', no 'negative work', no extra mistakes. Yeah it can get a bit boring and maybe physically tiring, but that's why it's called 'work'.
All your barriers are mental ones: you think you won't work as well, so you don't work as well. I wonder how well the army would function with your mentality: "Oh, we've come far enough today lads, let's have the rest of the day off and read Slashdot." How many hours a week do you think Phd students work? More than 40, and do you think they're doing negative work?
I think you people are just lazy: you don't want to do much work, you want loads of money, so you make up reasons why you're not allowed to so much as break a sweat or work a second over 40 hours. No wonder all the jobs are going to places where they know the meaning of hard graft.
Employers are not right, but neither are the father/husband.
Why should your co-worker who are "single" be satisfied with working 80 hrs? Being a husband/father should never be an excuse for you to work less. YOU chose to be one, no one forced you to make your own life difficult.
Working 80 hrs a week is not good, but being a father shouldn't get special treatment. Everyone knows you're not taking your kids to baseball games every night. Instead going home to watch TV and have a beer.
Perhaps because poverty during those revolutions days consisted of very few sets of cloths, dirty cloths, disease, sickness, small living enviroment, no car, no cell phone, no internet access, no food, no clean water, the list goes on.
Go to myspace.com and look up a ghetto, you see people in "poverty" sporting their bling earings, upgraded rims, cool outfits, want you to call them up on their new cell phone.
Poverty in America compared to poverty before a revolution is night and day. The person in poverty driving a 10 year old car still has a lot to lose.