* Andrew Paul ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Surely it always going to be relative? You will need to explain this > more,
I was pretty clear before, and you twisted what I said to try to make it look like I was saying something that supported your worldview. You've made it pretty clear in the past that facts and clear thinking are not your friends, so I'm not inclined to waste much of my time explaining things to you, so...last try: I said that the standard of living needs to be raised around the world before automated manufacturing can be cost competitive with manual labor (in many cases, obviously there are some areas where it already is). This is not a difficult concept. If it costs $1 to make a part by manual labor and $2 to make it by automation, then you make it with manual labor. If the standard of living (wages, etc) for the lowest quintile is raised so that manual labor costs $3 in the poorest nations, then manufacturing switches from manual labor to automation. I said nothing about the gap between rich and poor nations. That was your statement, wrongly attributed to me. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l