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To: just_living
what is justice?

It's part of the deal. We're a long way from having anything like justice as we are familiar with show up in the world at large. But that's because we are new to this global business environment. Issues of justice will be resolved gradually in the course of time, but in the meantime we have business and communication just taking off. Even the ability to discuss things worldwide within minutes is a brandnew capability and we have just a hint of where that is going. I'll bet it's a lot like when Europe officially discovered the New World, but this time the new World is the Whole World. Are Americans ready for this?

32 posted on 07/30/2003 4:38:00 PM PDT by RightWhale (Destroy the dark; restore the light)
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To: RightWhale
Are Americans ready for this?

Judging by the public schools, HELL NO!

35 posted on 07/30/2003 4:39:47 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: RightWhale; just_living
I agree with the basic direction of your comments. We've got to think of this as a challenge. If we sit around and howl and wait for the government to "protect" jobs for us, this country is finished.

I'm a translator, and some of my work is also being outsourced to India. But it was work I usually refused in the first place - the translation of birth certificates, college transcripts, etc. It will be badly done, but that's okay, because the only important thing in those documents are the dates and names, which will probably be correct. Furthermore, having edited a number of translations, I can say that the amount of shoddy work done here in the US by translators is so overwhelming that I can't blame clients for wanting to pay less. And I suspect that this is true of other industries, too.

Be that as it may, if we want to be stagnant and dead like Europe, let's have the government "protect" our jobs. Nothing is more sure to mean economic downfall and ultimate irrelevance.

We're Americans - we pull up our socks, move to a different part of the country, go back to school and learn something different, or start our own businesses. I'm sick of the whining.

46 posted on 07/30/2003 4:49:24 PM PDT by livius
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