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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (352927)	10/2/2007 2:15:17 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573841

Your mindset, or wanting to hold on to specific types of jobs would have left us with three quarters of Americans working on farms. That's not even close to what I said. Its not directly what you said, and I didn't quote you as saying any such thing. What I did post was that your mindset would lead to such a thing. If "loosing" any jobs was something that we had to work hard to avoid than you get stagnation. The reality is that in the long run "losing jobs" is a good thing. It means that you don't need as many people to do the work that used to be done, and those people can do additional work, adding to total production and wealth creation. First of all, doctors and lawyers are not typically seen as service jobs. Which is why I listed several other decent paying service jobs. Also they are indeed service jobs, and they should count on the list along with nurses or hamburger flippers. Secondly, service jobs on average pay less than manu. jobs. Without the increased productivity that has allowed the manufacturing to be done by less people, they wouldn't be making wages that are higher than today's overall average wages.