"Off-shoring" Manifesto/Rant: Sixteen Hard Truths (Tom Peters)

tompeters.com ^ | February 21, 2004 | Tom Peters

[Pukin Dog]

Hmmm, I guess this is not a fair fight.

You listed companies that either bought or stole technology from other companies before marketing them as their own. It would be a good idea for you to read, prior to arguing with me. Facts are a terrible thing to ignore. Apple? Woo-boy..... Have you ever HEARD of Zerox? I'll just be charitable and consider that you might have just had a bad day.

[Pukin Dog]

Texas Instruments is going to 'sit' on a development until one of their smart people goes somewhere else and helps another company succeed by taking risks that TI was unable or unwilling to take.

This is a very old and repeated scenario.

[RKV]

Raytheon didn't steal, nor did Hughes, sorry you are wrong - again.

[Pukin Dog]

last post to you. Do your homework.

[_Jim]

until one of their smart people goes somewhere else and helps another company succeed by taking risks that TI was unable or unwilling to take.

Do you know how TI got noticed early-on in the semiconductor world?

They hired away a materials specialist named Gordon Teal who had worked at Bell Labs near the Shockley Lab and he figured out how to grow the pure germanium crystals that was used early on ... In 1952, Teal answered a want ad in the New York Times for a job at Texas Instruments.

[sixmil]

The proper role of a healthily functioning economy is to destroy jobs and put labor to use elsewhere.

Sounds like they only got one half of the equation figured out. In a healthy economy, people are pulled into new jobs, not pushed out.

[AZLiberty]

Our fundamental "unearned" wage advantage is freedom. Freedom, coupled with human intelligence, inexorably creates wealth. As our freedom declines and the freedom of the rest of the world surges, our freedom advantage and hence our wage advantage will naturally be reduced.

More freedom worldwide, fortunately, will lead to an aggregate increase in wealth. Less freedom here at home will mean that we will earn a smaller piece of the bigger pie than we might otherwise have earned.