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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (12617)	10/17/2003 3:28:00 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793592

I agree with you that tech talent was overpriced in 2000. Personally I don't think it was overpriced in 1996. We want the best and the brightest to build products that we can sell to the world after all. But anyway today, in 2003 tech talent is underpriced and this is the worst job climate ever for professionals. OK. Part of the time it's overpriced and part of the time underpriced. This is called "capitalistic economics". Or the business cycle. Some cycles are more extreme than others. You whine like a stuck pig now. Did you scream about the coming danger in 2000 or 1999 or ....? It didn't take Albert Einstein to recognize that as a bubble. People in the workforce know it and that is why the economic figures are suspect, at least to me. Of course they are. The gov't compiles them. That turns them into a political tool. Thay were that long before George Bush, though. Unemployment claims especially, that metric needs significant retooling. Yes. Don't hold your breath.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (12617)	10/17/2003 3:42:44 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793592

Remember Lizzy.. "Supply and Demand." Also remember "Cream Rises." Many of the age group you noted (20-40'somethings) have had access to many material things and tend to take them for granted. As a group, they are very "Me" centered. Instead of complaining that they are overworked, and underpaid, perhaps they could do what their Grandparents did during the Depression. Try to find extra work. Volunteer. Try to do without a car and take a bus. Raise some of their own food. Pick crops. Do work they are just sure is "beneath" them. And use any extra time to work with kids who are really disadvantaged. Everyone will benefit.