On 11/05/2010 09:20 AM, Suzanne Bowen wrote: > 8. Regarding Alex Balashov abalashov at evaristesys.com > <http://evaristesys.com>'s remarks on Thu Nov 4 13:56:19 CDT 2010 > including the following ... > "The debasement, cultural Third Worldisation, and used car salesmanship > of the VoIP origination business presently being ascribed to DIDX in > this thread is a real story, consisting of real thoughts by real people > that is a useful data point from an empirical perspective. Everyone is, > of course, free to make their own judgments and purchasing decisions. > However, there is clearly sufficient consensus around this angle on it > that it's not just a figment of one disgruntled individual's imagination." > > Suzanne’s emotional response (Ack! Bring back the usually quite rational > Suzanne!): > http://suzanne.supertec.com/2010/11/when-going-gets-tough-tough-cry-little.html.
I am perplexed by this response. The term "cultural Third Worldisation" is not a catch-all racial or ethnic epithet; it was very deliberately selected to refer to the phenomenon of movement from a more developed marketplace to a less developed one. "Third Worldisation" is often used by economists, for example, as a perfectly legitimate and politically correct referent of deteriorating labour market conditions, work conditions, legal atmosphere, or wages in the US/Canada/Europe/Australia/NZ/Japan. When the term is used that way, it is used to mean "backsliding"; we gained something before, and now there are forces at work trying to roll back those gains. That is precisely what I meant, and I stand by it. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems LLC 1170 Peachtree Street 12th Floor, Suite 1200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Tel: +1-678-954-0670 Fax: +1-404-961-1892 Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/ -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
