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TOO AWESOME FOR WORDS!
40hz:
The only jobs in the West are in services, e.g. hostess, waiter, grocery store clerk, plumber, electrician, etc. You cannot get someone in Brazil to pour a cup of coffee for you if you're in Boston. You cannot get a mechanic in India to fix your car. You cannot get someone in the Philippines to fix your toilet.
The only jobs left in the West are in services.
-Renegade (January 17, 2013, 09:03 AM)
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Interestingly, the thing that always characterized so-called 3rd-world economies was that they were service rather than manufacturing based. Something that contributed greatly to their reduced standard of living since there was little opportunity for significant "value added" gains in providing services. It's generally just a sale of "hours of somebody's life" for dollars when you're in the service industries...
In many respects quite similar to slavery or indentured servitude, the difference being that the purchase of a slave or indentured contract is a fixed expense as opposed to the variable expense an "hourly worker" represents on the books.
Let those who advocate for the "new service and information economy" ponder deeply the implications in this. :tellme: ;D
Renegade:
Let those who advocate for the "new service and information economy" ponder deeply the implications in this. :tellme: ;D
-40hz (January 17, 2013, 09:25 AM)
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Inside of the "service" sector, we do need to point out the difference between PHYSICAL services and INTELLECTUAL services.
e.g. A lawyer provides both, but his physical presence is still required in court. A coder? Not so much. Those are purely intellectual services.
There's a big difference there in "services".
-- Just in case that wasn't already apparent/explicit/implicit/understood/whatever for anyone. ;)
40hz:
Inside of the "service" sector, we do need to point out the difference between PHYSICAL services and INTELLECTUAL services.
-Renegade (January 17, 2013, 09:39 AM)
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It's also important to remember that intellectual products and services are heavily dependent on increasingly strict (and easy to manipulate for gain) IP, trademark, and copyright laws (plus increasingly capricious, arbitrary and draconian enforcement actions) to maintain their high levels of profitably.
With the ramping up of the intellectual property concept, you get what you ask for. 8)
Apparently the USA has decided to bet its collective future on just such a thing. :(
wraith808:
Let those who advocate for the "new service and information economy" ponder deeply the implications in this. :tellme: ;D
-40hz (January 17, 2013, 09:25 AM)
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Inside of the "service" sector, we do need to point out the difference between PHYSICAL services and INTELLECTUAL services.
e.g. A lawyer provides both, but his physical presence is still required in court. A coder? Not so much. Those are purely intellectual services.
There's a big difference there in "services".
-- Just in case that wasn't already apparent/explicit/implicit/understood/whatever for anyone. ;)
-Renegade (January 17, 2013, 09:39 AM)
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Nice article-- and even nicer clarification. :)
Tinman57:
But seriously, gotta give the guy props! He's obviously very good at managing developers~! ;D :P
:Thmbsup:-Renegade (January 17, 2013, 05:46 AM)
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Yeah, but he got his ass fired for it too. lol
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