Are American high tech workers obsolete?

[Hewitt Tech]

BTW, check out this story on H1-B:

http://computerworld.com/careertopics/careers/labor/story/0,10801,73411,00.h
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-Alex

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hewitt Tech" <hewitt_tech at attbi.com>
To: <discuss at gnhlug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: Are American high tech workers obsolete?


> Another irony is that I have observed that trade workers, people who
install
> your carpet, paint your house, build your house etc.., are often much more
> successful than the average college graduate. I'd be the first to admit
that
> they often work damned hard for their money but they also participate in
the
> 'underground' economy - cash only. They don't pay the same amount of taxes
> that high tech employees pay.
>
> -Alex
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <bscott at ntisys.com>
> To: "Greater NH Linux User Group" <discuss at gnhlug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 11:29 AM
> Subject: Re: Are American high tech workers obsolete?
>
>
> > 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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