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January 6, 2004
*OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR*
Second Thoughts on Free Trade
*By CHARLES SCHUMER and PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS*
[snip] > inexpensive, high-bandwidth communications make it feasible
for large work forces to be located and effectively managed anywhere.
Maybe Joseph Weizenbaum's assertion that: the comptuer has been one of the most powerful forces for social reaction in the 20th century, will prove to be more deeply true than he (or at least I...) ever imagined.
Of course we don't believe in conspiracy theories, on the premise that one should never attribute to evil intentions what can be explained by simple stupidity, but, nonetheless, one *could* imagine far-sighted geniuses seeing the potential of high-bandwidth communications to make it feasible for highly skilled white collar work to be offshored to n-th world nations. Such an eventuality would presumably more than pay back the initial investment in infrastructure, especially when a lot of that infrastructure was provided by tax revenues from persons in the first world before they lose their incomes due to these "investments".
The invisible hand "comes through" and saves the day, after all (and even after FDR...)! (By gosh, "conservatives" never lost hope that it would!)
Pro bono publico! Novus ordo seclorum! Annuit coeptis! Wow!
\brad mccormick
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-- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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