Laws against globalization.... 2914

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Gill Bentry

Well, that's interesting, but we still get a ton of the pro-Indian hype posts (or is it a US guy trying to goad the rest of us into thinking India is the next big enemy of the US or whatever and we have to beware or whatever; the only time you get a better idea of the motivation is when the guy actually talks about himself, where he is, who he is without giving his real name, whatever), so I'm kinda laughing about how the rest of the world is not being represented. And, how many people are reading all this tripe? Couple dozen? A hundred at the most?

I'm an independent consultant primarly brought in to

Well, there are all kinds of funtions out there that can be called "fell into the cracks" maybe you're one of them.

I don't either, but if anyone has an axe to grind, then they should join a focused group that has measureable goals (lobby a senator, contribute to a union, or something else) or at least learn more details. I, myself, can write down a list of positives and negatives for globalization, but what I really hate is when CEOs just cold-bloodedly lay off 10,000-20,000 US guys (some big fraction with families) and at the same time say they are hiring 10,000-20,000 Indians. And, then we have the pro-Indian hype artists bragging all over the place about this when in fact all these big IT companies are hiring like mad in Ireland, Russia, Brazil, and even in Viet Nam!! Not to mention China!

I don't care so much if they want to establish a presence in, say, India and make that part of "real business" in India, but the cut-throat-betrayal treatment of US guys by US CEOs is pooty, period. Or, the other sure reason: cut wage costs so it gets into the newspapers to hype up stock value so the CEOs' f***ing stock options go up. Hang those guys by their balls!

Fine, I do the same thing. I've argued a lot with Kamal Prasad for the last year; I'll give credit that he said things that made me think and read and pay attention to the international scene; so, I think I understand some things better because he said things that made me mad. And, I think some fraction of the things he said were wrong and I said so. And, with no politeness.

I consider myself quite different from most of the

Well, what do you want? The work to come back defect-free and then you have no job or you become a Walmart shelf-loader? ;-) ?? Like most of

Having to constantly work with lousy code,

Blame even more on our stupid CEOs. Two-three decades ago I think maybe some CEOs really worked; today, they're all a bunch of parasites and crooks (eg. Enron, etc.).

I can

Hey...be my guest. But, maybe they have some gripes, too. I always just say "Be glad the newsgroups have freedom of speech, but be ready if someone disagrees with you, too". :-)

Again, though, you are right: There is no

Hah!

Yeah. I didn't take the stress test. Wife and I made a new year's resolution a couple years ago: we're not going to agonize about anything if we don't really have to. She's been more calm about stuff, too, now, and we laugh a lot of things off.

But, seriously, I'm still going to say that, at least in the next decades we are going to suffer more from globalization and all the 3rd world countries are going to benefit at our expense. Europe? I don't know, they are having trouble getting organized. Japan? Tokyo, from what Michael Lewis says, is sitting on an earthquake fault and 90% of the value of Japan is in Tokyo-based buttetts. One Richter 9 blast and it will be like instant Great Depression.