[NTLUG:Discuss] Hidden Malware in offshore products raisesconcerns

[Lance Simmons]

* Greg Edwards <greg at nas-inet.com> [030913 20:15]:
> 
> The drain of technology jobs has nothing to do with free trade and
> gloablization.  Unlike many industries that have seen a mass exodus
> the labor costs for these jobs were a result of the free market
> system, not union wage negotiations.  

Collective bargaining is part of any healthy free market system.  If
tech workers in the 80's had realized this, they would have supported
workers in other, less glamorous industries when those workers were
having their jobs shipped overseas.  The fact that tech workers still do
not see this point, even after their own industry has started exporting
jobs, amazes me.  Displaced tech workers will need to grovel before the
unionized workers of America if they are to get any political support at
all, yet they can't understand why, because they still regard unionized
workers as their inferiors.

To wit:

> I don't mean to sound cruel, but these are not textile workers earning
> 3 times the value of their work.

I guess we're now finding out exactly what tech jobs are worth.  The
rate at which American tech jobs were "overvalued" may turn out to be
much higher than 300%.

-- 
Lance Simmons
It's hard to get ivory in Africa, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa.
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