[lbo-talk] World Economic Forum Weeps Bitter Tears For Lost "FirstWorld" Jobs

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Mon Jan 26 10:25:50 PST 2004


----- Original Message ----- From: "Dwayne Monroe" <idoru345 at yahoo.com>

According to online ski tourism site, onthesnow.com, the weather in Davos Switzerland is very cold and snowy. Even so, the hearts of World Economic Forum participants are filled with warm regard and tender consideration for the newset members of Earth's largest group, Club Dispossessed: *first world* workers out-placed onto the street by global outsourcing.

Alas, their tears, though salted with an abundance of kindness, are not sufficient to stem this inevitable tide, driven by cosmic market forces, which is bringing unprecedented savings to the planetary consumer.

With such wisdom and selflessness at humanity's helm, our survival for another 50 to 100 years is all but assured. What, you want more?

DRM

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Migration of Skilled Jobs Abroad Unsettles Global-Economy Fans

By BOB DAVIS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

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I'm really beginning to wonder how much of this constant focus on outsourcing by the press, relative to the actual scale of the phenomena vis a vis employment in the 'hi-tech' sectors etc., isn't just a great big Gramscian mind-fuck-war-of-position being played on 'knowledge workers' to keep 'em anxious and paralyzed.

"While machinery is the most appropriate form of the use value of fixed capital, it does not at all follow that therefore subsumption under the social relation of capital is the most appropriate and ultimate social relation of production for the application of machinery."

Feel free to add/substitute computing or knowledge where the term machine is used...........

Ian



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