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But he offers this advice: "Don't train yourself or your children [in
work]
that a computer can do or a smart kid in China or India can do. Because
that's ferocious competition."


http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...0,5466021,full.
story



Computer "operator"? That is not a particularly skilled job. Was he
thinking "programmer". Even so, I agree, there is a guy in India that
will do that for $40 a day. The internet has made it such that it
doesn't matter whether your cubicle is down the hall or half way
around the world. Halfway around the world is cheaper.

The point is that skilled trades are the last thing to get exported because
it's not practical to have someone in New Delhi fix your plugged up sink.
Not until they develop cheap teleportation like Star Trek. In the current
market, having a BA in English is likely to get you a job slinging burgers.

The worst part of all this is kids are starting their careers $50 to $100K
in debt for a college education from a named school. Unless they go to Wall
Street, there's no way they can pay that loan off in this economy. It's
just another in the row of dominoes that is falling over that used to be a
vibrant national economy.

--
Bobby G.