--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11 Mar 2004, at 9:29 pm, Gautam Mukunda wrote: > > > --- Jan Coffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Sorry, but your numbers I believe are wrong. It is 1 > >> in 6 jobs that > >> are going to India, that's not 1 in 6 tech jobs, > >> it's 1 in 6 jobs. > > > > Jan, think about what you're saying here. There are > > ~100 million jobs in the United States. 1 in 6 would > > mean more than _15 million_ jobs had left the United > > States. That would create unemployment rates > > equivalent to those suffered in the Great Depression. > > The current unemployment rate is under 6%. I'm not > > going to ask for for a source on 1 in 6, I'm just > > asking you to do a sanity check. Think about it. > > As I posted earlier in this thread: > > <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/03/07/ > MNGRT5G2C11.DTL> > > "Jobs are more likely to be shipped overseas from Silicon Valley than > any other region in the nation, placing the Bay Area's economic engine > directly in the path of the global freight train known as offshoring. > > Specifically, 1 in 6 jobs in Silicon Valley are at risk of being sent > abroad, compared with only 1 in 10 positions nationwide, according to > researchers at UC Berkeley. The economists estimate that 1 in 7 San > Francisco jobs could be exported." > > Of course 'could be' isn't the same as 'will be' :)
Thanks, I thought it was SJ not SF but fine, and thank you for correcting that it is the probability and not a sertainty. Still, all the more reason to do something about it now, before it get's worse! _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
