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[Maria C Winslow <maria.winslow AT windows-linux.com>]

Ditto.

On Friday 31 January 2003 3:07 am, Jason Laughlin wrote:
> At 10:33 PM 1/30/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >I really don't think either goods/services or the cost of living will go
> >down. I just think the divide between the classes will continue to expand.
> >I believe history teaches us that this is when revolution happens.
>
> Unless you're French, in which case you can just go on strike again.
>
> Come on people, one of the few things that both Adam Smith and Karl Marx
> agreed on is that the free movement of capital AND labor was a very good
> thing -- important to market efficiency and to the happiness of the
> workers.  Sure there's some stickiness in the markets and we can't all move
> to the "next thing" as easily as we'd like, but ultimately the
> routine/drudge work gets either automated (by us) or passed off to other
> workers (interns, recent college grads, or, GASP, foreign workers) so that
> we can focus on the jobs that we are best at and exchange the money/goods
> earned for what someone else is good at.  It's called comparative
> advantage, and protectionism works against it by subsidizing work that is
> no longer being done well/efficiently.  Of course, if you don't want to do
> a new job, then you can follow your old job to the new country and hope
> that you can keep your old salary.  I've long believed that the best
> arrangement possible would be to earn a US salary while living in a 3rd
> world economy (my father was in diplomatic/military service abroad, so I
> know this works well). I'd be more tempted to do it if I weren't
> broadband-addicted.
>
> Jason
>
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