As incomes plummet (as you put it) so will the price charged for the goods produced by those wage-plummeting employees. It matters not a jot where those goods are produced. Trade is based on the notion of "Comparative Advantage" not "Absolute Advantage". Even if some other country is better at everything than the US is, it will still be to both countries advantage to trade.
This applies to services as much as to physical goods. And if someone's wages go down and the price of a good goes down, the net result is that standards of living across the economy probably will go up not down - since more people buy the cheaper goods than make them, so more people benefit.
This kind of whining about losing jobs to foreigners drives me nuts - if you dont like it go find something else to do or move up market...
I think we're missing the point here. Sure MS would like to see.NET on Linux. But thats not the reason for the investment. MS has a history of dumping money into troubled "competitors" just so as it (MS) can continue to argue that they are not a monopoly. Think Apple, Borland, Corel. All of them produce things that were at one time or another a competitor to MS in some are. If these companies go under, MS's argument that they (MS) are not a monopoly looks a bit weak. So they put money in to keep 'em going. Sure, now MS has a seat on the board. So they can still claim to have competitors, and yet they have a big stick to beat 'em with.
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ANd I work for a very large Forest Products company and I would happily tell you that Dell Support is about as useful as a Marzipan Door knocker
Ones a sort of penguin, the other is a frisky debutante dying for a shag (which is a type of bird)
Who are you calling a basted??
Dude, you just torpedoed the MS toadies, right there. I worship your vision.....
Check out the bird on the website (the one with the phone) - thats a bloke in drag, for sure...
Its a troll you stupid bastards, look at the sig at the bottom
(no amount of evolution is gonna help you thick bastards)
"I won't use software that is protected
in any manor"
But would you use it in a humble hovel?
I use design patterns and I program in VB. Works very well in getting around the few limitations in VB.
BertyB
You are missing the point..
As incomes plummet (as you put it) so will the price charged for the goods produced by those wage-plummeting employees. It matters not a jot where those goods are produced. Trade is based on the notion of "Comparative Advantage" not "Absolute Advantage". Even if some other country is better at everything than the US is, it will still be to both countries advantage to trade.
This applies to services as much as to physical goods. And if someone's wages go down and the price of a good goes down, the net result is that standards of living across the economy probably will go up not down - since more people buy the cheaper goods than make them, so more people benefit.
This kind of whining about losing jobs to foreigners drives me nuts - if you dont like it go find something else to do or move up market...
Can a Revelotion (presumably revolution) be wrought ??
I thought only iron could be wrought...
JFK aficionado perhaps?
who concluded from that article that Michael is an arrogant twat?
I think we're missing the point here. Sure MS would like to see .NET on Linux. But thats not the reason for the investment. MS has a history of dumping money into troubled "competitors" just so as it (MS) can continue to argue that they are not a monopoly. Think Apple, Borland, Corel. All of them produce things that were at one time or another a competitor to MS in some are. If these companies go under, MS's argument that they (MS) are not a monopoly looks a bit weak. So they put money in to keep 'em going. Sure, now MS has a seat on the board. So they can still claim to have competitors, and yet they have a big stick to beat 'em with.