Posted on 04/06/2005 7:33:32 AM PDT by Valin
OOORRRR You COULD click on sourCe.
And, if those very same "others" were jumping off bridges.......
"In 1492 Christopher Columbus set sail for India, going west. He had the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. He never did find India, but he called the people he met ''Indians'' "
Good thing he wasn't trying to find Turkey.
V,
This is all just globalization, in this case of labor. It has nothing to do with being flat, round, or any other shape. I think Friedman's point is interesting enough on its own, without having to belabor the flat Earth metaphor, which is weak from the start.
I heard him on Al Franken yesterday. He sounded fine, then went off on a big tirade about how the government should pay for every American to go to college or trade school, same as high school for previous generations.
Mr. Friedman, I guess, is unfamiliar with Pell Grants, the GI Bill, and Stafford loans.
He sounded fine, then went off on a big tirade about how the government should pay......
While I like reading him, he almost always starts down this road.
Thanks for a great post. This is the new reality; we are all moving onto the 'flatland' whether we like it or not. The question then becomes - what are the best possible choices for our children vocationally as we watch our wealth and opportunity move to new places.
Flexibility and adaptability. It isn't what profession they choose, it's how they approach it.
I collaborate with "offshore" partners on projects all the time. I like it. They work harder than the idiots in my own department, and have more talent too.
If only for the night.
I'll marry any woman for a night.
Friedman is using it for a joke, of course, but the idea that anyone of consequence in 1492 thought the world was flat is a myth; everyone with a scrap of education knew the world was round.
It isn't what profession they choose, it's how they approach it.
Bingo! We have a winner!
Very interesting article. I wish I could read the rest.
Does he discuss productiviy and political corruption later in the article? Those are the two things that continue to keep the US in the forefront of technological inovation. You can have the smartest most willing people in the world, but if they live in third world conditions and have a government that steals everything from them, they still can't compete with us.
As a buddy of mine says "It ain't love....but it ain't bad."
Cool, what do I win? :-P
'The world is round,' is NOT what Columbus reported back to the royals! This is a historical myth invented by Washington Irving in his biography of Columbus. What the true debate was about was how LARGE the globe was and in THAT Columbus was actually proven incorrect! It was quite a bit smaller than he had reckoned. However, in God's grace he was saved from dying at sea by a continent he didn't know existed. And that is the rest of the story!
My warmest personal regards.
That and a buck will buy you a (small) cup of coffee.
As much as they try to kill him, Von Clausewitz will not die. They have been trying to kill him ever since the early 1900s. He gets in the way of turning the whole world into a shopping mall with no borders. How inconvenient ...
Freakman, a liberal globalist utopian par excellance, it today's leading hater of Von Clausewitz.
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