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A comment on Green Scream: The Decay of the Hollywood Special Effects Industry.

Re:Green Scream: The Decay of the Hollywood Special Effects ... by sybhn on Friday March 01, 2013 @05:35PM (#5307400)
Sounds like that industry is getting hit by outsourcing, am I reading this right? Does look like articles about software engineering outsourcing a decade ago. The reality is, if your work can be done by someone else at a lower cost, you're in trouble. Whether that person live in your country or not, has little impact nowadays. If you stay at the edge, making sure your work cannot yet be done by someone else, then you'll get paid a premium for it. That's just how things work, basic economics. Don't make taxpayers carry your burden.

Ps: written by someone who saw the impact of outsourcing first hand.

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Re:Green Scream: The Decay of the Hollywood Special Effects ... by jinushaun on Friday March 01, 2013 @11:27PM (#5308460)
The problem is if you take that argument to its natural conclusion, the only people in the US with jobs in the future will be waiters and baristas. Who will be able to afford what the robots/companies are selling? It's not that simple. There is a delicate balance between livable wage and low operating costs. Ford knew he had to pay his workers enough to be able to afford the cars they were making.
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Re:Green Scream: The Decay of the Hollywood Special Effects ... by sybhn on Friday March 15, 2013 @10:18PM (#5384088)
actually if you take that argument to its natural conclusion the only people in the US with jobs would be people who innovate and create new value. Don't think that waiters and baristas fit in that category. If i was either, i'd be really worried about my prospect, and would probably fall back to organized labor to protect my jobs, because the economic mechanism definitely would not!
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