[futureceo31]

Since I am in the same high-tech field, what are your views on the millions if not billions of dollars that were poured down the drain during the .COM years and when companies hired staff of technies who sat on 1000 dollar Herman miller chairs, drank cappachinos and played video games? I think we are paying for those years of excesses with companies trying to go the opposite way and hire thousands in India who will work for low wages and not demand any of the perks that techies who didnt even have any knowledge in a lot of those areas that they were working on just becuase there was demand...

[clamper1797]

I didn't work for a dot.com company nor am I some IT software weinie ... I helped design the computers in most of the military aircraft that flew in both Iraq wars ... I never saw anyone who sat on 1000 dollar Herman miller chairs, drank cappachinos and played video games where I worked.

[singsong]

what are your views on the millions if not billions of dollars that were poured down the drain during the .COM years and when companies hired staff of technies who sat on 1000 dollar Herman miller chairs, drank cappachinos and played video games

This is a clueless question, economically speaking. The problem is with those who paid for such "work". Now what - to let the same idiot investors change the rules of the economic game, so that they lose less money with the next stupid product? Clueless as it gets.