<<Well, it doesn't destroy informational deficits entirely. Some of that is just transformed also.
Now they need someone with the expertise (knowledge, info)to run the software. <g>>>
Seattle's average compensation is too high, and the tax authorities cut too large. Software maintenance, evolution and eventually revolution are the most easily exportable jobs around.
Imagine, millions of smart folks willing to work around the clock, from Russia, India, China and whereverelse, at what? 10% of the compensation level?
The finished products than gets "imported" to the US on fiber lines costing next to nothing.
Before this storm is all over, folks will come to realize a whole new meaning of "hollowing out", and appreciate where/how the DELL/SUNW/CSCO gadgets are actually put together.
The net definitely destroys with rapidity and completeness, around the clock, on a near perfectly level arena.
And not just in the field of manufacturing and certain services, but via the establishment of extraordinarily complicated and interconnected financial systems, economic processes, all patched together. We have no choice but to travel on this very strange Space Ship.
Chugs, Jay |