2 Feb
2006
2 Feb
'06
3:20 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Pemberton" <philpem at dsl.pipex.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: Old Computer Collecting vs Electronics Building
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In message <017801c62845$3e06b800$72781941 at
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"Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:
> I would think
> the last thing a parent wants their kids to do these days is be a
commodity
coder,
engineer, or electronics repairman because of the low pay and
offshoring. We are turning into a nation of MBAs, burger flippers,
salespeople, and paper shufflers.
Yes, but wait until those MBAs and sales guys realise they actually need
products to sell. Who's going to design their products if there are no
engineers left?
You can't escape death, and you can't build a business on hot air and
promises.
They do have products to sell, they just happen to be designed and made in a
different country buy engineers who might have been educated and trained
here and then went back to their home country.
The only thing the US and Europe had going for it was inventing industries
and products because of the R&D they used to conduct. Now that R&D is being
done overseas by foreigners you can see our economies are going down the
tubes both in the short term outsourcing of manufacturing and in the long
term brain drain associated with doing R&D in foreign locations with local
engineers.
It is just a matter of time before China cashes in the US dollars it holds
and buys up US tech companies and ships them overseas along with their
patents. Then the MBA's who helped start this offshoring mess will be out of
a job also.