> Good Article. Do we still have to buy Doug's new book? ;-)
>
I think so, unless I'm misreading this:
Despite the long run of economic growth in the
1990s, the economic chasm between the rich and
the rest of the nation that first opened up more
than 25 years ago has continued to grow.
Um, does this imply that there was no chasm between rich and poor before 1975?
and
The California Budget Project study
by economists Mary C. Daley and Heather N.
Royer reported that, despite the image of
California as the vanguard of a new information
economy reliant on brainpower, only three of the
15 job categories with the largest number of job
openings in recent years required a four-year
degree, and 10 out of the 15 paid less than $10 an
hour.
This ignores the fact that many computer programmers lack formal qualifications - of our 4 programmers, 2 lack any university qualification.
Peter -- Peter van Heusden <pvh at egenetics.com> NOTE: I do not speak for my employer, Electric Genetics "Criticism has torn up the imaginary flowers from the chain not so that man shall wear the unadorned, bleak chain but so that he will shake off the chain and pluck the living flower." - Karl Marx, 1844