On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 11:18, Richard Hoffbeck wrote: > Sam MacDonald wrote: > > These big companies spend money like it's water. They don't want to > > pay people in this country a fair wage so they send the jobs to other > > countries. But it's just fine for them to spend $50m on a company to > > get control of it. > > > Get use to it. In a world with unrestricted capital flows, global wages > get equalized. > > --rick Absolutely! As it should be. If a job can get done for less it helps everybody. It Helps IBM be competitive. It helps the consumer pay less for higher quality. It helps the people overseas raise their wage closer to where it should be. It helps people like Sam to move on to a occupation worthy of his wage. Argue for unions, argue that IBM is immoral and evil for sending jobs overseas all you like, I don't buy it. I really don't mean this personally Sam, we are sorry IBM outsourced your job to another county, but the sooner you can accept that people and companies will ALWAYS take the cheapest solution the happier you will be. You'll never convince me or the corporate world to spend more to complete a job solely because it's the right thing to do. All they are doing is paying people the wage they are asking for. There is nothing wrong with that. What is right for you is not necessarily right for everyone. -- Tom Penney <blots at visi.com> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list