So thought Kim Jong-il and Castro, who closed their countries to foreign trade and have essentially brought the dark ages to their nations. Please stay away from politics, before the Tea Party gets elected and we op in for a world of hurt.
Manufacturing in a modern economy such as the US is something doomed. Not because we cant make it well, but because workers cost so damn much! Yep, would you still be all "our jobs" if your cost 2x as much? Yep, that also means less money for other things.
Let me leave you with something:
Would you be sorry for the Whale Oilers if this was 1890-1910 and essentially every one of them lost their jobs? There is no more whale oil, the whole industry had become obsolete because of the energy-denser crude, and killing whales to power anything sounds like a shitty deal to me. Yet, them losing their jobs had a negligible impact on the 100 years of extremely rapid development as a result of that industry tech switch.
Industries die, jobs become obsolete, and thats just the nature of technologic advance. The sooner it sinks into the populous, the sooner we can start looking into more important things than the Tea Party and actually make some headway.
Commodity jobs are being exported, the kind that you rather have someone else do anyway, as the profit margin of doing it at home is very low and you end up with subsidized industries for that exact reason (/me waves at the corn/christian belt and General Motors)
The fact that alot of uneducated electorate seems to neglect is that economics in the most developed and rich country on the planet is something way beyond what their American Idol brains can fathom. The only source of information for the above mentioned "middle" class is Murdoch's Newscorp, but thats a different story.
Back to the point, if we were losing so many jobs, why is it that at economic peaks we always end up with the same 4% unemployment rate, despite the last ten years being the golden age of outsource? The reality is that today's economy is far more dynamic and outsourcing something that produces little profit is the best way to keep an economy competitive (again, look at the US car industry and, say, Japanese/German cars)
http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=usunemployment&met=unemployment_rate&tdim=true&dl=en&hl=en&q=unemployment+percentage
Ladies, ladies, before you start talking about things you obviously lack the brains to comprehend, lets just remind everyone how one should measure an active development community.
Lets examine the amount of modules in the default distribution for each of the top interpreted languages today: CPAN: 73018, PyPI: 7740, Pear: 132.
A year ago, there were 58878 modules on CPAN (http://web.archive.org/web/20080730121430/http://search.cpan.org/). Draw your own conclusions whether the language is dead.
Meanwhile, the Python (ex PHP retards) core team is still trying to figure out, 20 years deep in the development of the project, how to support UNICODE correctly. Good times!
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When's the last time you've tried to hire an ARM assembly guru for a video decompression project, say, in North Dakota? ;)
So thought Kim Jong-il and Castro, who closed their countries to foreign trade and have essentially brought the dark ages to their nations. Please stay away from politics, before the Tea Party gets elected and we op in for a world of hurt.
Manufacturing in a modern economy such as the US is something doomed. Not because we cant make it well, but because workers cost so damn much! Yep, would you still be all "our jobs" if your cost 2x as much? Yep, that also means less money for other things. Let me leave you with something: Would you be sorry for the Whale Oilers if this was 1890-1910 and essentially every one of them lost their jobs? There is no more whale oil, the whole industry had become obsolete because of the energy-denser crude, and killing whales to power anything sounds like a shitty deal to me. Yet, them losing their jobs had a negligible impact on the 100 years of extremely rapid development as a result of that industry tech switch. Industries die, jobs become obsolete, and thats just the nature of technologic advance. The sooner it sinks into the populous, the sooner we can start looking into more important things than the Tea Party and actually make some headway.
Commodity jobs are being exported, the kind that you rather have someone else do anyway, as the profit margin of doing it at home is very low and you end up with subsidized industries for that exact reason (/me waves at the corn/christian belt and General Motors) The fact that alot of uneducated electorate seems to neglect is that economics in the most developed and rich country on the planet is something way beyond what their American Idol brains can fathom. The only source of information for the above mentioned "middle" class is Murdoch's Newscorp, but thats a different story. Back to the point, if we were losing so many jobs, why is it that at economic peaks we always end up with the same 4% unemployment rate, despite the last ten years being the golden age of outsource? The reality is that today's economy is far more dynamic and outsourcing something that produces little profit is the best way to keep an economy competitive (again, look at the US car industry and, say, Japanese/German cars) http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=usunemployment&met=unemployment_rate&tdim=true&dl=en&hl=en&q=unemployment+percentage
Ladies, ladies, before you start talking about things you obviously lack the brains to comprehend, lets just remind everyone how one should measure an active development community. Lets examine the amount of modules in the default distribution for each of the top interpreted languages today: CPAN: 73018, PyPI: 7740, Pear: 132. A year ago, there were 58878 modules on CPAN (http://web.archive.org/web/20080730121430/http://search.cpan.org/). Draw your own conclusions whether the language is dead. Meanwhile, the Python (ex PHP retards) core team is still trying to figure out, 20 years deep in the development of the project, how to support UNICODE correctly. Good times!