On 2016-12-13 15:45, Vara La Fey wrote: > Yes, it's heartbreaking, but just as the prices of ballpoint pens, > calculators and pcs decreased as the items became more common and > easily created, the price of labor decreases as laborers become more > common and easily located. > > It's supply and demand. You can't change it by denial or by > regulation. Do you want to build a Berlin Wall to keep American > enterprise imprisoned here? Will you advocate machine-gunning them in > the back as they desperately try to escape to freer countries with > less spoiled workers? > > Of course not. Then don't be tempted by the protectionist path which > has that as its logical end. Give regulators an inch, they take a > mile. > > 1) When American jobs and manufacturing go overseas, it's because > we"re finished with it and are moving on to something new that the > rest of the world will also play catchup with - someday. Maybe some of > you will hitch your wagon to that new thing. Or invent it. > YES!!! Drop your ones and zeros Here is the next big thing. http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-sierra-tree-mortality-20161129-story.html And when we grow tired of that we can import cheep labor to cut down our dead trees and move onto something else. > 2) Given the unthinkably low quality of Indian customer service and - > last I knew - of I/T personnel, don't be surprised if there's a > backlash, and competent Westerners get rehired in what I'll call an > "Indian Summer". We might not yet BE finished with I/T engineering.... > > > - Vara > - www.facebook.com/vara.lafey [4] > On Dec 12, 2016 11:09 PM, "Steve Litt" > wrote: > >> On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 18:06:28 -0700 >> Michael Butash wrote: >> >>> Long since tuned this thread out as far too political to care and >>> long since said my piece, but found this amusing to share to those >>> still following: >>> >>> >> > http://www.computerworld.com/article/3149535/it-outsourcing/disney-it-workers-in-lawsuit-claim-discrimination-against-americans.html >> [1] >>> >>> Now everyone run out and see Star Wars (or any other drivel they >>> release) this Christmas to pay for Disney's slave H1B labor! They >>> need every last cent of profit for such a hurting organization. >> >> Here's something even more amusing: I had a friend who got the ax in >> Disney's late 2014 bloodbath. He died less than a year later. I'm >> not >> going to explain it on this mailing list, but I'm pretty sure >> Disney's >> actions substantially hastened his death. He was a spectacular >> developer, system architect, and manager. >> >> Disney will never get another cent of my money. >> >> SteveT >> >> Steve Litt >> December 2016 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century >> http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 [2] >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [3] > > > Links: > ------ > [1] > http://www.computerworld.com/article/3149535/it-outsourcing/disney-it-workers-in-lawsuit-claim-discrimination-against-americans.html > [2] http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 > [3] http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > [4] http://www.facebook.com/vara.lafey > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Keith Smith --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss