From: riel@nl.linux.org
Date: Sat Aug 23 2003 - 21:38:12 MDT
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, randy wrote:
> Also, in combination with that, we have an accumulation of so many
> middle class people which makes it very easy for products to be
> developed and sold. This promise of potential profit from such a vast
> market of consumers offers an irresistible attraction for capital
> investment. And we benefit from that in so many ways....
I am worried on how long the large middle class will continue
to exist in the current 1st world countries. If the difference
between rich and poor people (within countries) keeps growing
like it has over the past decades, a large middle class might
well become a thing of the past.
On the other hand, housing + food + healthcare have become so
horribly expensive that high tech toys are just a drop in the
bucket in many of the richer country...
cheers,
Rik
-- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
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