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To: elmatador who wrote (25226)	11/14/2007 11:43:30 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217738

ElM, they can write software in Indonesia and send it over optical fibre. Writing software doesn't require being somewhere. <Open the flood gates doling out visas left and right that Indonesians from Bandung Institure of Technology, the Thais and the Indians and the Malays will flock in and drop those rates to 10 bucks an hour! > At $10 an hour, they'd be creating value at something like $40,000 a year, plus a consumer surplus. Let's be generous and say $100,000 a year. If the NZ citizenship is worth $1 million, it would be a lot of years before that value was returned. They could get a loan, buy a citizenship and come on over. The Indians I know have flocked to the USA, NOT to NZ. One of them is working for Google in New York. The Peruvians I know have flocked to Germany and Seattle [doing the artificial intelligence for Halo3 etc and earning serious royalties]. The NZers flocked to Livedoor in Japan. One of Tarken-san's ideas was to hire a swarm of Indians and act as manager/liaison with Japanese companies which need the work done. The Japanese don't speak Hindi or English and the Indians don't speak Japanese, so there is a good opportunity there. But there are opportunities everywhere. Hence cyberspace pay rates are zooming. Mqurice