Uncle Bob,

does Objectmentor get hurt if programmers in this
country lose their jobs in mass or can you position
yourself internationally?

Stede

--- "Robert C. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jhrothjr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > 
> > The thing to understand about economics is that if
> you have 
> > perfect competition, nobody makes any profits. 
> 
> I disagree.  If you have perfect competition then
> everybody makes just
> enough profit to stay alive.  Our population and our
> economy is growing.  If
> your business does not grow with it, it will die. 
> Profit is an essential
> component of growth, and therefore an essential
> component of success.
> 
> > Profit is made 
> > by exploiting some inequity in the market. 
> 
> Profit is made by exploiting the difference between
> value and cost.  This
> may be an inequity, but it is vital to civilization,
>  Without it we'd all
> still be hunter-gatherers working solely for
> ourselves. 
> 
> A heat engine is driven by the inequity an inequity
> of temperatures.  The
> economic engine is driven by the inequity of value
> and cost.
> 
> And in the interest of full-disclosure: Economic
> Theory According to Uncle
> Bob is about as useful as Object Oriented principles
> according to Margaret
> Thatcher.
> 
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