Andy Dingley wrote:
On 10 Nov 2003 21:35:06 GMT, otforme (Charlie Self)
wrote:

It was our manufacturing
capacity, the awakening of a sleeping giant, that won World War II.

It's China's century Charlie, get used to it. America has had its
day, just like England had hers in the century before.


I'd agree though that US minimum wage jobs aren't the ones going to
China.

Back when I used to make a lot of money as a software programmer, I knew it
was a short-term jig. Much of what I spent time doing was trivial,
repetitive, and essentially useless.

I have a book titled "Bus Maintenance" from the 1920's. Lots of mechanics
were employed in those days fixing problems many people today haven't seen a
single example of -- like broken axles. I bought my first home/business
computer in 1983. From the mid 1980's to the .dot com crash I fixed a lot
of software broken axles. The basic engineering has improved in both cases
so you don't need a room full of people. Toyota's don't (as a rule) break
their axles; connecting PCs on a network doesn't "break their axles" anymore
either.

Much of the .com boom was the incompetent doing the unnecessary for the
unrealistic, with the net result of inconsequentiallty.

-- Mark