Gates: "Where are the computer science students" 4159

Kamal R. Prasad

Let me give my 2 cents. The question is if the survival of humans depends only on "compebreastiveness". I think this is not true. Here is an example.

There are people with much bigger physical strength than me and there are quite a few which are not as strong as me. If we apply the "compebreastiveness" rule completely, this would mean that I may kill anybody who is weaker and anybody stronger than me would kill me. This would be good in general for the humanity, because the strongest and the healthiest will survive. Or is it?

As humans we have accepted that there are some features, which distinguish us from animals. We compete, but we compete in the framework of the rules, which make us human. If we reject these rules, we would be less humans and more animals.

I am not American, in fact I work currently in Asia. I think the problem with the cheap labor (now in India and China, later in other places) can and should be solved by imposing mandatory labor conditions. The laws in USA and EU should restrict trade with companies which violate the some set of labor conditions. In this way many companies in India and China will lose their trade compebreastiveness quite fast, because their compebreastiveness is rarely based on technology, organization, but on extreme exploitation. For example - no trade with companies where workers work more than 40 hours per week. Minimal wages also may be discussed.

This should be done on the global level and this is as important, as the free trade agreements, global warming, etc... Free trade should be done only with countries and companies which work with humans, not animals.

--JS

PS. Sory if my English is not perfect.