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Good point Al. If you call LinkSys you may
end up talking to my nephew in the Philippines. I'm happy he's employed. I
wouldn't want to waste the masters degree I paid for ;-( Talk about
overkill.
By the way, I got my unofficial invite to Bagdad to
assist in rebuilding the communications infrastructure. If I take it you
can bet it will be for far more money than an Iraqi would want to do the same
work ;-)
Cub
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 4:30
PM
Subject: RE: ShopTalk: Was LDC; is, real
life
When you call Dell computers for tech support, especially at
night, you will most likely be linked via satellite to India to one of their 4
current centers, each with ~400 employees. I wonder if being able
to hire a college educated computer systems specialist for the same price that
you can hire a floor sweeper in the U.S. has anything to do with it? Is
it possible that labor is a commodity similar to other goods and services and
is traded at a fair market price?
Al
At 06:01 PM 7/29/2003, you
wrote:
Hey you guys,
I enjoy your posts about golf clubs because you know what you are
talking about. That is not the case when you talk about "exporting jobs" and
inveigh against free trade. This is the kind of cr*p you hear from
scurrilous politicians trying to dupe us into voting for
them.
World
capital is not flowing to countries with low wage rates, but is
disproportionately coming here - because of our skilled labor and
management, because of people like you. We benefit from free trade - in fact
all participants usually benefit. Here is a good though long article on
'comparative advantage,' which explains the notion and why it is
counter-intuitive:
http://internationalecon.com/v1.0/ch40/40c000.html
Here's another perspective dealing with
manufacturing:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/TradeandForeignAid/BG1561.cfm
And another one dealing with the myth that
the trade deficit is somehow a bad thing for us:
http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed022503a.cfm
My three cents. Get your cannons
ready...I've got the garbage-can lid over my
backside.
L.
Hunter Kevil
- -----Original Message-----
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
- Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 2:12 PM
- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Was LDC; is, real life
- In a message dated 7/29/03 11:31:08 AM Eastern
Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
- But as offshore workers graduate from basic jobs to more
sophisticated
- technology work, critics here wonder if there will be high-paying,
high-tech
- jobs left in the United States.
- This is the major problem. We are not talking about American jobs as
basket weavers moving over seas! As third world basket weavers get some
money, a shack with running water and indoor plumbing and something more
than a bicycle for transportation their jobs get exported to another
poorer country and they get into destroying the American high tech
industries!
- Just heard today on the radio that India is attracting Silicon Valley
jobs! And I thought that all that could be produced there were cheap
hammers, screwdrivers and one time use wrenches along with shirts that
shrink in the first wash and colors that run faster than Bin Laden.
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