Outsourcing Trickles Down[snip]
I'm still "chewing over" that insight about how high-speed Internet connections enable companies to offshore first world white collar jobs.
On some NPR program this afternoon, they were interviewing some techno-guru who was saying that the e-divide (my term, there) between the digital haves and the digital have-nots in the US is really not very great, i.e., that more and more people are getting high-speed Internet connections. The person spoke about the "reds", by which he meant not Communists, but what I think would once have been called "red necks" -- in the heartland of America, or, as he described it, the "fly over" part.
And I thought: These people imagine they are becoming empowered and that they are rising up into the world of high-bandwidth. They are all excited about all the good things they are going to get from this improvement in their life circmstances.... But, really, they are helping dig their own holes in which THEY will have all the bandwidth the persons in power need to offshore THEIR jobs.
To adduce another bad analogy, at which Harry says I am so good: the passengers on the Titanic are busy removing the watertight bulkheads so they can get around the ship faster and the ship can go faster too (less "dead weight"...). But I am open to better, i.e., EVEN WORSE analogies!
\brad mccormick
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