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Originally Posted by dennisw
I think the above is a bit simplistic. Were there any layoffs involved? If what you say is accurate, those companies domestically employ the same number folks now as they did ten years ago? I'm not sure about that. I don't think shifting blue collar jobs to white collar jobs is going employ a nation. Sounds more like "I got mine, if you didn't get yours, your screwed."
If these concepts truly do relate to international capitalism, what about their impact on our national security? Shifting manufacturing to third world countries like china and india, may make sense from a bottom line perspective for Dell or Microsoft, because it increases their current profits. But is that the threshold criteria? What about Uncle Sam?
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One last item and I will shut up. A friend of mine is fairly high up in fortune 500 company and they just had some hackers spend a long weekend in their computers. The hackers derived from China. I wonder where they got the skill to do that? Let's assume my friends company has a data base with all our financial information in it. Scary stuff. Like the Rigteous Bros. say " I've lost that warm and fuzzy feeling" Alright, I took literary license.
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There isn't any choice. Businesses either make the decisions and moves to stay competitive or they go out of business. Then you don't have to worry about the US having the capability at all. Someone else will though, because they will be competitive. Are you under the impression that Microsoft, Dell, IBM, etc. should be charities (although in Microsoft's case, I could make a pretty good argument that 5 years of being a charity would be good for them. Their profit % is obscene)?
Oh, and as to where those hackers learned that skill?
Might remember that China invented the first computers. And that the Chinese historically are a smart and industrious people. We didn't need to teach them anything. They were going to learn anyway.
There are no secrets when it comes to technology. Not in the long-term. Once people know it can be done, they can and will figure out how to do it.