Re: The Journal News: Flow of jobs overseas has human toll

You obviously haven't been victimized by this trend yet, Pete, or you'd be
singing a different tune.  I am facing financial ruin if it continues.

Steve Landess
Austin, Texas
(512) 423-0935

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pete Hall" <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 2:03 AM
Subject: Re: The Journal News: Flow of jobs overseas has human toll


> At 23:10 07/28/2003, Janet Krueger wrote:
> >The New York Times article on IBM seems to be generating a lot of other
> >press articles on the flow of job overseas, such as the one below...
> >
> >http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/072703/d0127offshore.html
>
> That's really sad. Capitalism is really biting us here, but isn't it
> working the way it's supposed to work? Sure many jobs are moving off
shore.
> We're feeling major pain. Gradually, wages in other countries will rise as
> the standard of living, and the experience and  expectations of the people
> in those places become similar to ours in North America. Our standard of
> living will drop. Theirs will raise. Eventually we'll all be the same. Is
> that a bad thing? Obviously it's bad from the viewpoint of the US
> programmer, but is it unfair? Isn't it just a tad arrogant to expect all
> the good stuff to be available only to those of us who, by accident of
> birth, happened to end up in Topeka or Baltimore or Toronto? This is not a
> helpful thing to the guy who earned $120K last year and is now working
10PM
> to 6AM at Stop and Go, but have we the right to call it unfair? It's
really
> difficult to think of ME as a bit of cosmic flotsam, but what right have I
> to assume that I am anything but? I don't like it either, but before the
> flames start, think about it.
>
>
> Pete Hall
> pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.pbhall.us/
>
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