Chuck brings up a good point, one that has been thought of before: back
during the height of the arms race, it was theorized that it's a real bad
idea to centralize all of your capital. It was thought that maybe all the
factories should be spread out evenly, rather than concentrated in any one
place - that way, there would be no one place that a nuclear weapon could be
detonated that would cause a *major* amount of damage. (Kinda like a Borg
spaceship, in a sense). I'm hoping that some of the result of this is that
we de-centralize as much as possible - skyscrapers are great if you're
hurting for land space, but they're also juicy targets. Hopefully we'll
spread our resources out a bit in order to avoid another tragedy like this.
BJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Larrieu"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 12:25 PM
Subject: RE: US Stock [7:19433]
> since you asked - this is real bad news for the economy. there are a
number
> of major financial firms located in the twin towers, all of whom have
> probably lost key people. These are firms that drive the economy in terms
of
> investment and investment capital. how long will it take to get things
> straight? you will see spillovers into the stock market, into planning,
into
> corporate spending. that translates into jobs.
>
> yes there will be rebuilding that must take place, and this will
eventually
> mean an economic boost. but maybe not for New York City. If I were a
> survivor of one of these firms, and had the chance to build from scratch,
I
> would seriously consider relocating to Kansas. And I do not say that
> sarcastically.
>
> this tragedy spills way beyond what one might think. In an economy as weak
> as ours is now, this is real bad news indeed.
>
> hoping any number of friends and personal acquaintances who work in that
> area are ok.
>
> Chuck
>
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>
>
> Would the technology or other industry go down and the Department of
> Defense funding go up? would this be good to us, the Cisco geeks?
>
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