From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266214AbUALPyU (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:54:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266215AbUALPyT (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:54:19 -0500 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:10162 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266214AbUALPyO (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:54:14 -0500 Message-ID: <4002C317.7000100@tequila.co.jp> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 00:53:59 +0900 From: Clemens Schwaighofer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: root@chaos.analogic.com CC: Linux kernel Subject: Re: IBM/Linux Info References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.82.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Richard B. Johnson wrote: > Note that this is not an "America only" problem. The bean-counters > world-wide are moving technology and jobs from the civilized countries > to those that aren't required to provide toilet paper for employees. > This improves profits by eliminating the cost of toilet paper. Thought in my opinion all these moves away won't pay off at the end anyway, because if in the "first" world countries are only un-employeed people because all their jobs have been moved into "third" world countries because there they can pay the people only a bean a day, then _nobody_ will be able to buy their products in the end. lg, clemens