yeah because the only thing that effects the economy is which party is currently in power. in fact george bush caused the internet bubble to burst and the economy to crash. if gore had been elected, the economy would have just kept going straight on up to infinity and we would all be filthy rich. jeeze what was i thinking? i think i'll go vote for a democrat now.
i agree with your concerns (not sure about the solutions). but i don't see that ruining free trade would help with those concerns. it would just add to people's expenses, perhaps making the cost of walmart products a problem equal to the healthcare problem.
i kind of agree maybe. i might not mind seeing some rules tweaked to emphasize the long term.
but don't sell short the gains the US has gotten from cheap labor and free trade.
low costs of consumer goods is good for the poor/middle class/everyone in america. think of all the people a company like wallmart employs -- from low skilled workers to high skilled workers. think of all the companies which support wall mart and the high skilled jobs that were created there -- computer software, hardware, equipment, shipping, finance, lawyers, etc, etc. china gets something they want and we get something we want.
when companies are successful, shareholders make money too and thats huge. how will you retire without your 401k?
yeah and if the corporations didn't save money and attract investment, they would go out of business because they're products would cost too much. and then how many jobs would be saved?
jobs in my last company are being shipped off shore and i'm not surprised. it was a low skill job. everyone there was doing java and sql and C, but they all had degrees in psychology and biology and other useless majors (they had been hired during the boom in the 90s when there were was a shortage of programmers). if psychology majors and english majors can be productive programmers in a few short months, then so can can people in asia. granted but these people were writing buggy awful code. but i guess its working enough that the company is hiring again and is somehow the leader in its market. i think there are lots of low skill programming jobs out there. there are some very high skill programming jobs too. but i just don't think programming is necessarily that high skilled. it can be, but often its not.
yeah i'm not sure. i think its tricky. after all microsoft has been convicted for being a monopoly. that means the only software available to buy is microsoft software. how do they lose money? i guess they gotta pay for the packaging... and you could spend the money on hardware. but i don't see how this settlement will foster competition in software. but i suppose thats not exactly the goal of the parties involved in the settlement.
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yeah because the only thing that effects the economy is which party is currently in power. in fact george bush caused the internet bubble to burst and the economy to crash. if gore had been elected, the economy would have just kept going straight on up to infinity and we would all be filthy rich. jeeze what was i thinking? i think i'll go vote for a democrat now.
i agree with your concerns (not sure about the solutions). but i don't see that ruining free trade would help with those concerns. it would just add to people's expenses, perhaps making the cost of walmart products a problem equal to the healthcare problem.
but maybe thats not what you were trying to say.
i kind of agree maybe. i might not mind seeing some rules tweaked to emphasize the long term.
but don't sell short the gains the US has gotten from cheap labor and free trade.
low costs of consumer goods is good for the poor/middle class/everyone in america. think of all the people a company like wallmart employs -- from low skilled workers to high skilled workers. think of all the companies which support wall mart and the high skilled jobs that were created there -- computer software, hardware, equipment, shipping, finance, lawyers, etc, etc. china gets something they want and we get something we want.
when companies are successful, shareholders make money too and thats huge. how will you retire without your 401k?
yeah and if the corporations didn't save money and attract investment, they would go out of business because they're products would cost too much. and then how many jobs would be saved?
jobs in my last company are being shipped off shore and i'm not surprised. it was a low skill job. everyone there was doing java and sql and C, but they all had degrees in psychology and biology and other useless majors (they had been hired during the boom in the 90s when there were was a shortage of programmers). if psychology majors and english majors can be productive programmers in a few short months, then so can can people in asia. granted but these people were writing buggy awful code. but i guess its working enough that the company is hiring again and is somehow the leader in its market. i think there are lots of low skill programming jobs out there. there are some very high skill programming jobs too. but i just don't think programming is necessarily that high skilled. it can be, but often its not.
yeah i'm not sure. i think its tricky. after all microsoft has been convicted for being a monopoly. that means the only software available to buy is microsoft software. how do they lose money? i guess they gotta pay for the packaging... and you could spend the money on hardware. but i don't see how this settlement will foster competition in software. but i suppose thats not exactly the goal of the parties involved in the settlement.