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Hmmm, I WAS trying to get the opinions of geeks mainly, but perhaps this
post belongs in "debate" instead. I am trying illicate opinions about the
economic/political issues raised by this stuff.
-- Hop-Frog
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Richard Marchetti writes:
> Hey Y'all:
>
> I gather that many people here work in the "tech" industry one way or
> another. Given that, I wondered if any of you have opinions about the sorts
> of things one finds at sites like "f-----company" or "netslaves."
>
> How many people think that their jobs are threatened by globalization, H1-B
> visas, continuing unemployment in the technology sector of the economy, the
> ITAA estimates of technology job growth, etc? Do people truly think their
> jobs are eventually going overseas or to underpaid H1-B workers here?
>
> Here in the Bay Area, I have heard some talk of a third wave of unemployed
> persons that cannot find steady work -- there simply is none to be found in
> their field of interest. Many feel things will not pick up again until some
> time next year -- if even then.
>
> Is the cause merely the collapse of the bubble, or are there actually myriad
> related factors? If the latter, what are those factors?
>
> Opinions? I ask here in the hopes of getting something beyond the opinions
> of the obviously angry or union-obsessed.
>
> -- Hop-Frog
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