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June 04, 2007

That sound you hear is my head repeatedly hitting the nearest solid object...

If someone wants to believe that the earth is only 5,000 years old, that dinosaurs were farm animals for homo erectus, and that flying/lending money/technology is the spawn of Satan, so much the better for me. It's that much less competition that me and my family have to deal with in the world of high-tech reality.
- Brian Miller

This sort of thinking is-- to put it nicely-- idiotic. The underlying assumption is that there is only so much; so many jobs, so much money, so much... stuff; to go around. Insanity! Mr. Miller thinks that as long as he has a larger share of pie than the person next to him, the size of the pie does not matter...

The development of human capital is the only thing which can expand the pie. We can either get that capital from outside the country, or we can train it within. If over 40% of Americans don't believe in basic biology, the pie is going to stay mighty small indeed...

Posted by Andrew at June 4, 2007 01:18 AM

Comments

At a given level, there really *are* only so many jobs.

Programming has been outsourced in a major way to India. IBM runs their main shop there instead of two miles away now. You know, I just am not going to Bangalore for a job.

The strategy of internationalizing labor is the way business is seeking to increase profits on the backs of labor. Americans are just not going to have the jobs that bring the income that fuel the consumer economy.

When our manufacturing is outsourced, goods are cheap -- but what use are cheap goods if folks have jobs so bad or absent they can't even afford to shop at WalMart? And believe me, WalMart is starting to feel the pinch brought on by their own policies and strategies. It used to be a store that stocked American goods. Now it is the Chinese Plastic Emporium -- and its sales are starting to drop off as the customer base gets screwed and screweder.

Posted by: Scorpio [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 12, 2007 05:20 AM