"What happened to the employees of the candle-makers, the buggy-whip companies, and the astrologers? Oh, wait, they're still here, but in fewer numbers."
Apples and oranges. Buggywhips were no longer needed. Their use no longer existed. No on uses buggywhips anymore
The output of these outsourced jobs is still VERY MUCH a part of the economy.
Apples and oranges. Buggywhips were no longer needed. Their use no longer existed. No on uses buggywhips anymore
The output of these outsourced jobs is still VERY MUCH a part of the economy.
Bingo.
That should be carved in stone and placed in a monument in DC, alongside the Vietnam and WWII monuments. A monument to the economic war LOST to foreign employment.
You've cut right to the heart of the matter. The "buggywhip" BS is exactly that -- bulls#!+. This is not some "paradigm shift" (how I despise that buzzphrase!) in which one type of industry is eclipsed by another. This is nothing less than the wholesale destruction of the human infrastructure of this country.
For the buggywhip-ranters consideration, let's say that you're right -- the technical industry has been eclipsed (yes, yes, I know, it's madness, but humor me for a moment as I humor them). It's over, it's done, it's gone, *poof*, it's time to move on.
So, what do we move on to? Hell, it doesn't matter. So let's make something up. We "move on" to an industry based on the design, manufacture, and maintenance of framjumustorian mafulasticoid consorbite lutonics.
Great, ain't it? Hell, we corner the market on those... things.
Oops, guess what just happened?
Right. You got it in one.
We hired in a bunch of Chinese and Indians to take over all the key jobs in the framjumustorian mafulasticoid consorbite lutonics industry -- and, "offshored" the rest of the jobs -- to China and India.
What we have here is a situation in which we're not "the world leaders", we're just a crop -- to be harvested when ripe.
The rest of the world can just sit back, watching and waiting, as we expend all the R&D money to create new industries and new markets -- seeing which ones fly, and which die on the vine -- and then, once we've done the dirty work, they can just swoop down, pick the fruit, and leave us with the weeds.
Beautiful system "our" legislators have given us.
The "H1B" nonsense, and everything along those lines, needs to be recognized for the treachery it is, and stopped.
I don't see that happening, though.
I don't see much of a future for us. I'm not gonna pull a rose-colored-glassed job you anyone. I'm just gonna call it as I see it. And that's what I've just done.
Go ahead, flame me (not you, TB, I know you've got your head on straight). I dont' give a rat's ass. I'm old enough to have the bulk of my life behind me, and the taunts of those who can't see the forest for the trees is just so much noise so far as I'm concerned. I tune it out the same way I tuned out the sound of "the el" every few minutes back when I was growing up in the low-rent part of the Bronx.
But it's our children, and our children's children that I fear for. I don't know what kind of world they're going to have to face.
Oh, damn. I just lied to you. I know full well what kind of a world they'll have to face. It's just that I don't want to have to face the fact that we've damned them to a future that's so bleak as to defy description.
Oh, well. I'll be dead long before it comes to that. For those of you who're young enough to have to explain to them why you left them that kind of world, well... go rent a copy of Soylent Green or something like that. Maybe it'll give you something to tell them.