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> Offshoring is eating its way up the food chain. A few
> decades ago it involved almost nothing but low-skill
> manufacturing jobs. Then as technology improved it
> expanded to include skilled manufacturing jobs. Now
> it's up to the level of jobs that require degrees,
> erasing jobs at the mid management and
> engineering/design levels.
It's not good, is it? We're gonna be in deep doo-doo, I think.
> The number of jobs that pay high wages and are open to
> Americans is shrinking while the population is
> increasing. This can't be good in the long run.
Especially since 2/3 of the economy is consumer buying. Tax cuts and
home equity loans have fueled consumer spending recently; how many
tricks like that can be found to sustain our spending?
The solution for tech writers is retrain, so we're told, but, hey,
they're retraining in other countries, too.
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