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Article #115Re: EVENT: Join "Make Poverty History" riders to Edinburgh, Fri 1 July 2005
From: Chris Malcolm
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 22:58
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 22:58
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M Holmes <fofp@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> writes: >In ed.general alan <alan_potter@hotmail.com> wrote: >> "David M" <david@bogus.domain.dom> wrote in message >> news:slrndc8cg0.gbl.david@pepper.local.lan... >>> I really can't see how the "chase to the bottom" can result in anything >>> other than temporary employment for a given area before the jobs move on >>> to somewhere even cheaper.. Repeat ad infinitum..? >> I think it will inevitably mean a greater world-wide harmonisation in living >> and working standards. As the cost providing goods or services becomes the >> same wherever they are sourced, so there will be no economic reason for one >> part of the world to be more prosperous than another. >> I think we in the west will suffer for it, but the end result of having >> greater equality and stability world-wide will benefit mankind. >It's not a zero-sum game. If the whole world gets to western standards, >think of the brainpower we'll have to throw at the world's problems, >even supposing we're dumb enough to limit them to one world... The AOL experiment has already proved that bringing most of America's brains online did not improve the intellectual standard and problem solving ability of newsgroups. -- Chris Malcolm cam@infirmatics.ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 651 3445 DoD #205 IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK [http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]
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