Clueless. The “I got mine, who gives a damn about you” mentality.
Please take a trip to India. That is what we could end up with if everybody becomes as short sighted as you. WHO THE HELL can afford to rent movies when nobody has a job?
There is a cost for freedom. There is a cost for this great country. Freedom is not cheap.
We live in the greatest country in the world (at least for now). It cost money to fund the greatest country in the work. This cost is reflected in cost of living and ultimately the cost of labor. So very rich fat-cats find out they can make even more money if they stop paying the expensive labor cost in this great country. They want to live in this great country but they don’t want the workers in their company to live in this great country because it cost them too much money.
Huck, you see no problem with this.
Anybody that can see beyond the bottom line knows this will hollow out the middle of our economy and it will collapse upon itself (it has happened before). But the joke’s on you Huck. The fat-cat ultra rich can move to some other country when this one is spent. You can’t.
Shipping your labor to other countries so a company can avoid paying the costs of maintaining the greatest country in the world (at least for now) is a big problem.
The “free” market gave us slavery.
Huck, I assume you are a big supporter of slavery. By gosh, if your labor is nearly free just think of the profits you can make.
That's not it at all. Take nothing for granted. And I have picked up a few clues along the way. Best of luck to you.
Amen, but by the same token, nothing lasts forever, and the cost of freedom is not always what you think it is, specifically, 'stability' and 'certainty' are the opposite of freedom.
We in the IT industry are reliving what our fathers had to go through -- remember that they had great jobs back in the 1950's in factories that actually built things...
the greatest danger is to succumb to the temptation of keeping things static -- for the government will gladly step in and "keep things static" ...forever. this is exactly what has happened in Germany and Europe which is why they are so stagnant and bereft of new ideas.
what is happening in the US is quite troubling - it can be both the dawn of the next big technological thing (perhaps nanotechnology) but it can also be the thin edge of the wedge to a completely determined economy -- which of course is another name for socialism