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To: BGR who wrote (18430)3/16/2000 7:21:00 PM
From: pater tenebrarum  Read Replies (1) of 42523
 
you are right about that. the main thrust of the cost savings efforts is currently the establishment of various B2B internet sites to further pressure suppliers. that means however that the suppliers' margins will get squeezed further, so there's a downside to this approach. i don't think much can be done about production processes as such. basically the automation is already in an extremely advanced state, take for example the BMW factory in Regensburg that only employs a handful of people (car manufacturers being a good example for both the B2B efforts and automation).just-in-time inventory is implemented everywhere, and it can't get any better than just in time.
the service sector has to contend with the problem that in the end the day has still only 24 hours, and we're still all only humans. this is not to say there won't be any avenues for improvements, merely that there are limitations to productivity enhancements.
as to buying tech stocks, they already have decades of phenomenal growth priced in. whenever that has happened in the past, the requisite stocks have proved to be poor investments for long periods of time, in spite of the promise often being realized.
nothing suggests that 'this time it will be different'.
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