Cheaper programmers, it can't get any lower

[Dave Hull]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Bradley Miller wrote:

> but when cars cost more than the average assembly line worker makes in a 
> year and when it takes two incomes just to run a household . . . there is a 
> problem somewhere.

The alienation of the worker from the product she is producing... Karl Marx 
and his peers discussed this idea. I've often wondered whether the people 
working in these sweat shops overseas were able to afford the products of 
their labor. Probably not.

As for Jason's remarks that the original poster's comment was racist, I think 
you're reading something into it that wasn't there, or perhaps I'm not 
sensitive enough. I didn't think anything like that when I read the original 
post and then I read your's and went back and read the original poster's 
remakrs. I still don't see it.

You're assuming all jobs going over seas are going to people of different 
races (whatever that means). I submit that most programmers in eastern Europe 
and the former Soviet Bloc are just as "white" (whatever that means) as I 
am...

With regard to primates doing programming... well, it's like the good Dr. 
says, "Humans are primates too." So primates have been programming for approx. 
half a century, give or take.

I keep looking to find the punch line on this web site. I just don't see 
farming out programming tasks to orangutans, chimps, bonobos, etc. It is 
difficult enough for human beings to clearly communicate their needs to one 
another, imagine trying to get on the same page with a baboon for any number 
of non-trivial tasks.

I did like this quote, "All testing must be performed here at our compus due 
to the howling and air quality issues with Baboons."

They should hear/smell some of the people that work around here... :p

-- 
Dave Hull
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