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Schneier: Don't expect Uncle Sam to guard your web privacy – it's Europe riding to the rescue

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Re: When the Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth...

When you went to university the majority of the workforce you would become part of also went to university in your home country.

Globalization is not just about making labour cheaper. Having workers compete globally for local jobs is about having lower, more profitable, standards. Particularly in those nations that had laws protecting the environment, people and with systems meant to help people. Ethics was just one of those standards deemed unprofitable.

For those that doubt that look back at the number of laws, policies and practices introduced to help protect people and the environment up to the 1980's and those introduced since. A look at productivity and wages over the same time period will show those nations with concerns about such things as ethics and sociological impacts were made to pay the highest price.

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