sci.research.careers

On Jul 24, 6:35 pm, Straydog wrote:
> Where is science going? The (Russell, you paying attention?) rest of the
> story is another thing I've been harping on: job export to countries with
> cheap currency.
>
> How many millions of all kinds of jobs went to India & China all these
> last 10+ years? What do we have left? Medical services, expansion of the
> discount chains & thrift stores (one per year opening here), Walmarts,
> and Starbucks and other coffee shops (we have a lot of coffee shops here,
> came up in the last 5-10 years). Gone are the factories.
>
> So, what does that do, too, to the future of science/eng/tech jobs? Much
> less gets fixed; throw away society. Hire an Indian/Chinese for 1/5th the
> USD. All the computer trade rags I used to read 2000-2005 talked up all
> these tens of thousands of IT jobs going to Indian labs, and China, SEA,
> Taiwan, etc. And, all that stuff, of course, stimulates all the kids in
> those societies to study for that stuff because it will get them out of
> poverty, even if 70-80% of them "dont make the cut."
>
> Remember Jarred Diamond's "Collapse."

Yes, I'm paying attention, but I have liitle to add except that I
heard Starbucks is raising its prices.

Cheers,
Russell