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" <slitt@troubleshooters.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 18:06:28 -0700
>> Michael Butash <mike@butash.net> 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]
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>
> 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
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