{"id":357,"date":"2005-10-22T12:05:28","date_gmt":"2005-10-22T16:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=357"},"modified":"2005-10-24T11:14:03","modified_gmt":"2005-10-24T15:14:03","slug":"blackholed-on-nussbaum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Blackholed On Nussbaum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now this is interesting. I attempted to post a comment to one of Bruce Nussbaum’s entries on BusinessWeek and have found that I’ve been “blackholed<\/a>” (besides the obvious astronomical reference, I can’t help but think of this as a combination of “blacklisted” and “cornholed”). This could of course just be caused by the fallout from all the splog<\/a> issuing forth onto the net (I’ve sure wasted my time dealing with it), but then again I don’t always agree with his comments so perhaps I really have been… blackholed<\/strong> (I kinda like that noun-to-verb construction).<\/p>\n

Oh well, who knows. It’s just as easy to point to his entry, add a trackback (if it takes; trackback spam is a b*tch too) and post my comment here. So here’s a link<\/a> to what I consider his time-late observation and here’s the comment I tried but wasn’t permitted to post: <\/p>\n

This seems a little late, to be honest. A full year ago I found that I was underbidding some design firms in Asia. And around the same time my contacts in China were discussing the issues related to changes in the labor situation.<\/p>\n

I believe it’s also been widely reported that the rise of an affluent middle class in Chinese cities has been driving up the cost of agricultural products – with the consequent effect being that the spring from which cheap labor has been gushing is slowing to a reasonable stream. Why leave the farm for some dangerous industrial job far from home when produce is now fetching higher prices at market? Someone has to feed all those people. Is it any surprise that other, recent reports have shown rural farmers gaining the edge in conflicts with the government?<\/p>\n

What goes round, comes round.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That works.<\/p>\n

I wonder how many other companies are trying to figure out how to deal with these kinds of unexpected, opportunistic invasions of their blog space. As irritating as it is, blog spam is a pretty creative (if selfish) invention. Reminds me of my previous posts where I warn people about how unruly a 3D internet will be. I think blog spam is a long, long way from being the worst we’ll see.<\/p>\n

{Edit: I noticed a comment referring to this part of Nussbaum’s blog entry: <\/p>\n

And if geography doesn’t matter, why should wages be differentiated on the basis of geography for the same work? Hmm…. That’s a big thought.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I agree with “Sledgehammer”. The reason for wage differentiation seems pretty obvious to me and I’ve mentioned it before (either on this blog or perhaps on the SL Salon): you can’t simply pay an industrial laborer in the third world the same wages as those in the U.S. because it’s likely that this rate will exceed the wages of local professionals… like doctors. Until their entire system is raised to the same standard as the developed world, it’s not likely to be in the long-term interests of that society to encourage the pursuit of the lowest-rung occupations (which would likely be the first to benefit from the developed world’s loving attention). Like most things in life, balance is an important consideration.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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