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...heads of publishing companies have spend most of the last 20 years worrying about the costs of organized labor, the price of printing paper, and postal rates. It clearly did not occur to them that the early internet successes like Lycos, Excite, and Altavisa were in the information gathering, sorting, and creating businesses. Their indexing and presentation of content looked clumsy in 1997 and 1998. It is incredible to remember that Yahoo! (YHOO) had its first day of 100,000 unique visitors in 1994. The company went public in early 1996. Google (GOOG) raised $25 million...
...have increased the costs of materials. But ironically-tragically, really-the main problem has been the 30-year hibernation of the nuclear construction industry, the legacy of the incompetence that led to TMI. The specialized workforce of nuclear engineers, welders and other reactor-builders has withered, which means higher labor costs and more delays. Our nuclear industrial base has atrophied as well; for example, the world's only steelworks capable of forging containment vessels is now a Japanese monopoly, forcing utilities onto a three-year waiting list to pay exorbitant prices...
...news is troubling because labor costs in the U.S., even among highly educated adults, are falling. American workers should be available for employment at salaries much lower than they were two years ago. But, it appears that IBM has elected to move jobs offshore rather than keep them in the U.S. despite the trend of more tech workers losing their jobs here...
...cost of labor in India, which was already below that in the U.S., is likely to be falling even faster than it is in the U.S. The outsourcing business in India has been hit with a sharp drop in demand, and the major Indian employers in the sector are doing poorly. (See pictures of ten things you should know about the Nano...
...While labor prices drop in the U.S., they are probably dropping faster in countries like India and China. India's official unemployment rate is 8.2%, but is expected to rise throughout the balance of the year. IBM clearly arbitraged the joblessness in the U.S. and India as it made its decision about where to employ several thousand people. To put it crassly, IBM is looking for the equivalent of the lowest cost bidder...