America's Real Wake Up Call

On Wed, 25 May 2005, indiaBPOking

i.e. the best companies which are the ones that are the biggest parasites: screw the underlings, screw the employees, screw the compebreastors, screw the customers....etc.

are finding ways to leverage the best of what is in

...No matter who gets hurt in the process.

And, how much BS did it contain besides the messages that the moon is a piece of cheese and the tooth fairy exists?

What does this have to do with causing the USA to progress from a post-industrial society to a post-service society?

Americans see the world

Depends on what part of the world you are talking about; most of what I see is tens of billions of dollars wasted on anti-terrorism budgets and the likes of the Patriot Act.

What does this have to do with net loss of jobs from the USA and to China-India?

Mbuttive investments were made in global communications

Ah...and all the Westerners (you didn't talk about how age-discrimination plays a role) now have to go out and grovel.

So, all these unemployed and underemployed people are going to forget or not worry about how they are going to put food on the table?

They have transformed the very nature of

Sounds like a weird case of myopia.

Sure seems more like propaganda he wants people to eat and digest instead of food.

The legacy of the dot-com era's

You mean satellites don't count?

Now, as never before, non-Western nations are producing

Seems more like American standards of living are going into the toilet while all the Bill Gateses will go laughing to the bank.

Oh joy, "Happy days are here again"...... polyanna?

You think its all like that?

Chinese city of Shenzhen, where

Nothing like heavily laid on hype.

We visit

Oh, I heard that most of the people there still live in pooholes. A small fraction get to work in the fancy new buildings.

where from a window Friedman

Ah, that lovely utopian music playing in the background.

English translation of Gates sentence "Now I can exploit the exchange rate and make even more money"

I'd rather be a genius born anywhere.

At the expense of American workers.

and American

I wonder what his definition of "prosper" is. Prosper under the bridge?

The word is so innocent sounding and is PR schmooze to take the sting out of its worst meaning "shipping jobs out of the country." And, the term hides job shifting IN the country. Just generating vagueness.

He notes that

From what I've read, this is a vast oversimplification as well as being an obfuscating sentence.

This sure sounds like the same sentence as the opening sentence.

Not proven, no evidence for this. You need to go back and read, for example, Peters & Waterhouse's "In Search of Excellence" where, a few year after the book came out, 1-3 of those excellent corporations were in deep trouble and another 1-3 were not doing nearly as well as when the book came out.

We need a new economic model based on preserving standard of living, preventing poverty, and preventing big rich people from enriching themselves way way beyond what they really need.

There are limited opportunities for American professionals including take a cut in pay. A BIG cut in pay.

Of all of the book reviews I've read in life, very few reviewers talk about the book without mentioning its defects.

The interviews and anecdotes are fun and mostly fascinating,

Bad way to end a paragraph.

...develop an informed understanding of pro-business propaganda

Broken record.