Re: War on Jobs
[DougS] Your argument is stupid and backwards
Anonymous just made a statement. Let's see your argument.
[DougS] If a company makes a lot of money, they aren't going to hire more people
So, if a company loses money or only makes a little money, they can hire more people?
That does not make much sense. I don't see a lot of poor people hiring others.
[DougS] If every town had three cable companies to choose from there would be a lot more people employed in the industry
Multiple competitors exist through media only, today. Wireless, satellite, cable, copper. In the past, there was only Government Telco. We effectively have what you are talking about - there are jobs in all these markets. All are delivering audio, internet, and video services.
Federal Government regulations discourages cable from competing with one another.
http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/05/charter-wont-compete-against-cable-firms-because-it-might-buy-them-later/
[DougS] If cable companies can't force people to pay $200/yr to rent their crappy boxes...
Cable companies are not forcing people to pay for the boxes, today. I had a friend who just ordered Cable Internet, about 2 months ago, and he bought his own box. He just does not get the maximum bandwidth that is available. You can buy cable modems at electronic stores or internet.
[DougS] If you think the FCC shouldn't set standards, why do we have LTE?
ISDN was a set standard, DSL ate it alive after de-regulation. Innovation is the reason the government political appointees should not create standards. Political Government Appointees should register standards, not dictate them. Free Government should be a neutral arbitrator, not a dictator. Government control & dictatorship breeds horrible conditions - look at Venezuela, North Korea, Cuba, etc.
Freedom breeds innovation.
[DougS] ... LTE... AT&T, Verizon... switch to a different phone... iPhone would never have been created... wouldn't license proprietary standard to other companies...
The iPhone was released with 2G network capabilities. The first phones were tied to AT&T. A new iPhone was created for Verizon due to frequencies leased by the company and different network standards. Other carriers followed with different iPhones for different frequencies & protocols. The iPhone was created, even through the technologies were different between the carriers - the carriers DID license them because AT&T made so much money eating the other carriers alive with an innovative product. Your argument is not really solid.
Back circa 2000, I had an internet capable phone with a screen. The difference was the decision by Apple to abandon the WAP standard and adopt other standards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol
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I am not sure where you are trying to go with your reasoning. Vendors come up with a product, partner with the carrier, and produce something to be sold. They have always done this.
I had some friends recently released from a set top box manufacturer. High product costs enable high-salary designers & software engineers. Product costs, at $200 a box, is too low for manufacturing in high cost regions.
With human capital costs in Mexico, Eastern Europe, and Asia at 1/5th U.S. costs - Federal Government should not be encouraging the migration of those jobs any faster than they will occur naturally. $1 for every star in the Milky Way Galaxy was added to U.S. employers recently - U.S. Jobs were the casualties.
http://dailysignal.com/2016/05/23/20642-new-regulations-added-in-the-obama-presidency/
The same problem exists in Europe and Japan. The way all these nations tax their people is obscene. Income tax on businesses and employees outsources jobs to lower cost regions. Every time government increases costs through regulation or laws, more jobs disappear.
Where will the next generation of innovators come from, when all the newly trained workers are elsewhere?
The irony is that people vote for their own joblessness. It is a crying shame.
Anonymous was not too far from the truth.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
