Are American high tech workers obsolete?

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, at 10:34am, Hewitt Tech wrote:
> maddog in his "Front Porch" interview mentioned that a bullet item in his
> standard Linux presentation describes the adoption of Linux as
> 'inevitable'.  Can we say the same about domestic high tech jobs moving
> out of this country?

  I believe you can same the same about pretty much any job that does not
require one to by physically present in this country (e.g., house cleaning).

  Given: Business has gone global.

  There is no incentive for companies to pay for much higher priced US
workers when they can get similar levels of work from other country's
workers.  If enough US money flows into a country (like India) to push up
their standard of living, the work will then begin to flow to the next one
down on the ladder of national economic development.

  This process will continue until a state of equilibrium is reached, or
outside factors influence things.  A likely "outside factor" would be the
fact that we will exhaust the Earth's resources to support us fairly soon in
this scenario.

  We live in interesting times.

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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