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- Programmers are commodities.
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The situation is this, you have a global employment pool connected by high speed telecommunications links (wired/wireless) that span the globe. Businesses (that actually produce software or services) can acquire talent anywhere in the globe and they can connect from whatever location to where the client/employer is. This is what happens when we are all connected via telecommunications systems and the internet, we can find labor anywhere.
This increases the skill demand and nobody in the US wants to go through all the hard work to build up the skills (math, science, critical thinking, etc.) when they can sit on their asses and whine on some board somewhere about the current situation. No American is willing to work anymore, they just want to get stuff cheap (inexpensive) and get paid large amounts of money (ain't gonna happen).
Further changes to the economic landscape include the financial center of the world has moved from New York (USA) to London (England), technical talent has moved to coastal enclaves in the US (Washington, Silicon Valley (California), North East US states) and the rest has pretty much left for better places (Europe, Asia, etc.) where the cost of living is lower and the rates are improving.
On the plus side, Americans have borrowed over $8.6 trillion to keep the country going (roughly 75% to 76% GDP) and the rest of the world (the lending nations) are wising up to this. Be happy! - Posted by: B.O.F.H. Posted on: 11/05/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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