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]> wrote: > > > -----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. > > ----- > Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) | email: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Object Mentor Inc. | blog: > www.butunclebob.com > The Agile Transition Experts | web: > www.objectmentor.com > 800-338-6716 | > > > > > > To Post a message, send it to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com > Yahoo! Groups Links > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
