tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post3786519613066489782..comments2024-03-07T14:43:21.888-08:00Comments on Whatever I want to write about: How rooted are you in this footloose world?Sriram Khéhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907731254833435446noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-82007369284400026332016-07-24T08:59:53.521-07:002016-07-24T08:59:53.521-07:00I am always impressed by people like you, Mike, wh...I am always impressed by people like you, Mike, who practice their own words. Good for you for doing it.<br /><br />Oh yeah, if you lived anywhere close by, I would have had you as a guest-speaker in my class already, Ramesh.<br />It seems like in the US we are rapidly getting to (or have gotten to) a state where:<br />a. We want everybody to live well<br />b. However, we don't want people to work hard in order to live well<br />c. We don't want to let into the country people from other countries who want to work hard in order to live well<br />d. We don't want people in other countries who work hard in order to live well to do the jobs that we don't want to work hard to do.<br />Or, in simple terms, we want to have it all without any tradeoff involved. Sriram Khéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724218458246880137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-56563777011496833742016-07-23T18:10:57.626-07:002016-07-23T18:10:57.626-07:00Major Buzzkill - please check the registrations fo...Major Buzzkill - please check the registrations for Economic Geography 101 coming fall. You'll find a Donald J Trump and a Bernard Sanders in your list :) (how come Bernie does not have a middle name - isn't that a sacrilege in your country ?)<br /><br />Global businessmen have always known the value of nimbleness; the ability to organise your business where it is most efficient and to constantly reengineer as others get more efficient than you. As you rightly point out, its not just cost; it is all round efficiency. The eroding competitiveness of China has long been known. In the service industry, for instance, the gap between India and China has only increased as India is way more efficient than China is.<br /><br />And that's the real solution for America ; not anti globalisation rhetoric and abrogating trade deals. Get more efficient. For example BPOs in places like Albuquerque have started to be as efficient and only 2X more expensive than India and therefore not worth offshoring. Get your costs down and work hard. Get your medical and social security costs down (at least to the levels of the UK ; let alone more efficient countries such as South Korea ). Raise your bar for Medicare and pensions to 70 years. Work hard (In India we work night shifts in the IT & BPO industry ; show me one IT or BPO company willing to work after 5.00 PM in the US). With all the natural advantages that the US has, it can get back to full employment.<br /><br />Can't resist preaching to Uncle Sam :) And applying for a guest lecture slot in Major Buzzkill's course :):)Rameshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11782192840421019943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-91855324137739152312016-07-23T17:14:55.875-07:002016-07-23T17:14:55.875-07:00If only our leaders would put geography back in sc...If only our leaders would put geography back in schools! That helps us to understand the world and it creates new jobs as a bonus! Of course, geography has nothing to do with those STEM or medicine fields, so we certainly can't be bothered to teach it instead of having every graduate know how to use the quadratic formula.<br /><br />On a side note, I'll be doing my annual week of charity work in the desert starting tomorrow (yes, I do know there's a heat wave coming) so I won't be able to respond to your blog posts until the 30th.Mike Hothnoreply@blogger.com