[ale] Defeated by the offshoring of America....

[George Carless]

Eh?  Overpopulation is done to compensate for the scarcity of
*automobiles*?

*boggles*

This is just xenophobic nonsense.

--George

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 hbbs at attbi.com wrote:

> > I recently read an article on this. If I remember correctly, an Indian
> > tech worker out of college can earn $5,000/yr, and for this salary live
> > like a king.
>
> At least for now.  The same "global marketplace" that takes advantage of this
> gradient will also work to erase it.  It's not like they sell the same cars we
> have over here for 1/10th the price.
>
> Of course, over there, the need to have a car over there isn't anywhere near as
> automatic a thing as it is here.  They compensate by increasing the population
> density in metropolitan areas to levels that we here would consider incredible.
>  That too will become unsupportable, until eventually all paths will lead to
> near-parity between what we now call first-world and third-world countries.  Of
> course, none of this means that what we now call first-world will still exist
> for the vast majority of Americans, as that national wealth will have been depleted.
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