What Have We Learned About New YawkI must say that this conversation with Tim and KK has been most informative. I have really learned a lot and I want to make sure you all share in this knowledge. Here...
Vince wrote that, not me. However, he is right - the point is that, due to the potential for shipping virtually all our good jobs overseas, there eventually are not going to be any such jobs where you can afford these things. The only things that won't be shipped overseas are the ones where you have to be here in order to do them - taxi driver, plumber, electrician, etc. And, if any of those jobs get to be really high paying, the government will loosen up the H-1B visa cap so they can import people from all over the world that are fine with living 10 to a house, sharing the rent, and working for half what the job should otherwise be paying. This continues to happen in the software industry (no unions) and will probably only get worse. 5 years ago, the local paper, the Washington Post, had a whole section of tech jobs. Not any more - they all went overseas. There are tons of people that can do software that are doing other things for much less pay. Prosperity is disappearing while the adminstration can still brag about virtual full employment. There's a reason that the stock market hasn't done anything but move sideways over the period of the last 5 years, and this is a big part of it. The next step is the universal condtion of the "working poor" where people work the best available jobs and still have trouble paying the heat bill. But I'm sure there will be those that argue that heat is just a luxury, too... Dave Head
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