That depends on the game, now, doesn't it?
It also depends on the consequences of loss. Perhaps mere disqualification is preferable to loss.
I don't play games when all the rules are fixed against me.
Computer Science enrollments at MIT are down by 33% this years. When asked, potential students said that they were looking into careers in finance and law. And they are right. They would be fools to go into a field where they have to compete with countries that can turn out more engineers than our entire population and that work for 10 bucks an hour!
Innovation in high tech comes from design and engineering.The country that has that pool will do the innovating
China now requires US technology companoies to set up R & D centers in China in order to enter into the countries market place, and they require that they "partner" with a local firm to do direct technology transfer. We are in effect creating a competitor.
Our only advantage is our current lead, one that is eroding fast. The solution is to put pressure on these technology companies to create technology that automates out the inefficiencies that causes them to outsourceing the first place, and India and China will just have to take their lumps and develope their own technology. That is really how we got this technology in the first place because we limited its export and kept the R & D at home! This will never happen if they can just off shore those inefficiencies. Eventually (and I mean in 5 to 10 years) they will match us and go beyond us. What we are doing is transfering wealth.
It is the most absurd Orwellian doublespeak to say that exporting highly skilled and highly paid jobs to the third world will create good jobs. It is just the opposite, and if you would get your "free trade" religion out of your eyes you would see that.
And when we hear from High tech companies that we should invest more taxpayer's money in research what they mean is they want more free research that they will just ship overseas to commercialize. At what point does this partice cease to become an investment in the national interest and become industrial serfdom?
Global economic integration results in global political integration. Economic Globalism is a precursor to Global Socialism for it destroys the the economic security and freedoms of the middle classes and thereby destroys the national state.
And our business and political elites know this. That is just the point:They know this and they do not care for they see themselves as part of a emerging international aristocracy and not first and foremost loyal citizens of the the United State of America. They may be right about their personal decisions but those decisions will render your children serfs for they will not be in that select group, they will be their servants.
From what?
Oh--I forgot: PRChina is the World's Largest Marketplace With 1 Billion Buyers of American Luxury Cars and 3-Bedroom Air Conditioned Homes.
You forgot about this mandatory statement, right?
You free traitors are unreal.
The U.S. is the only country playing your silly game! The rest of the world IS protectionist.
Your so called free trade would better be called economic masturbation.