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Originally Posted by aceventura3
If you are in high tech, your challange is 10 times that of everyone else. I remember in college taking a course in FORTRAN. In the '80's the insructor told us the language was already obsolete. He didn't even understand why the course was required (I was an ECON/Bus major). In high tech if you rest for 6 months your competetive edge is gone. If you loose your edge who's fault is that?
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No, my skills are fine. I've got the same edge I've ever had, and more. But employers are increasingly doing as much hiring as possible overseas. This is not an opinion, this is fact as observed by me personally, as told to me by hiring managers, by friends who tell me why there are no openings at their companies despite rising profits. Thing is, much of what is done overseas isn't done all that well. But it's done so cheaply that they can be made to rework it two, three times and still be cheaper.
Yes, they can be employed more cheaply. Why not? There's no social security to pay, no pollution controls or very few, few employee safety rules and regs -- all the props of a civilized society. Take those away, and you can get people very cheap indeed. And eventually, that's what we'll have here -- a society of people scrambling for whatever work they can, at whatever price, in a society where they are completely on their own. Might seem like paradise -- to those who've already got.