[neutrino]

Suggested new headline: "College techie discovers world doesn't owe him a living."

Or, perhaps we should title it: "Surviving on the plantation - why you should learn to pleasure your Chinese masters."

Not to worry; at the present rate, we will soon enjoy the benefits of dollar per hour wages. I wonder if the company cafeteria will occasionally include a fish head in our rice? Yummm!

[megatherium]

I'm afraid some of our fellow FReepers don't realize that jobs in high-tech didn't just happen to become obsolete (in Joseph Schumpeter's "creative destruction" in a healthy economy), but were instead allowed to move overseas by deliberate government policy.

Seemingly no one is loyal to America anymore. Not the corporations, which have long abused visa programs to hire foreign workers at much lower than prevailing salaries, and which now are moving their headquarters to Bermuda to avoid their share of the tax burdens all workers take for granted. Not the public either, which crowds the Wal-Marts buying the cheap DVD players and clothing imported from communist tyrannies.

[Cronos]

Or, perhaps we should title it: "Surviving on the plantation - why you should learn to pleasure your Chinese masters."

COmpletely over the top statement. There are NO Chinese masters, all the companies are American.