Re: One of four U.S. jobs headed overseas 1 and comment on

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Robert J. Berger" <rberger () ibd com>
Date: June 14, 2007 12:10:13 AM EDT
To: Mike Cheponis <mac () wireless com>
Cc: David Farber <dave () farber net>, Dewayne Hendricks  
<dewayne () warpspeed com>
Subject: Re: [IP] One of four U.S. jobs headed overseas 1 and comment on

Well, that will get them far when the entire economy collapses and  
the US becomes the cheap labor pool cause they don't have any  
practical skills and all the goods and services have to come from  
overseas.

The differential in pay between the US and India / China will not  
stay so unbalanced and there are other ways to compete other than  
just salaries.

We have too many lawyers, bankers and "entertainers". None of those  
people create wealth. They just manipulate laws, money or consumers'  
psychology.

The next wave of wealth creation will be in areas like materials, bio- 
tech and quantum computing. The US is falling behind in all of these  
fields as less US citizens are capable of discerning reality from   
spin and have no grasp of basic scientific principals. The main  
reason that high tech work is going overseas is not just because of  
salary, but because there are many more folks there with more  
engineering skills than here. In India and China, being an engineer  
is high prestige. They are producing MANY more science/engineering  
graduates  than we are.

Young people of today need to be preparing themselves to compete with  
brain power, science and engineering. We need to be making our  
society more efficient in every dimension to make us more  
competitive, that too will take science and engineering.

Instead we have been doing the opposite. Dumbing down students,  
rewarding unreality tv fame over real creativity and stifling  
innovation thru re-privatization / monopolization of key infrastructure.

The US is hurtling into making itself a 3rd world nation because it  
encourages its children to be lawyers, bankers, spin-meister  
politicians and unreality TV stars.


On Jun 13, 2007, at 6:16 PM, David Farber wrote:

> I've been encouraging smart young folks who have an ounce of  
> ability to COMPLETELY avoid the SCIENCES, TECHNOLOGY, and  
> ENGINEERING sectors, as those jobs will be done by very cheap  
> foreign labor.  There is no point in competing with some guy in  
> China who gets paid a bowl of rice and lives in a tent.
>
> Go into INVESTMENT BANKING, LAWYERING, ENTERTAINMENT, SPORTS,  
> FINANCIAL SERVICES or something that can't be offshored.
>
> Forget about SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, and TECHNOLOGY - there isn't any  
> future in those fields.

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