[sdiy] The extreme low cost of audio gear

[Richard Wentk]

At 23:50 31/08/2004 +0200, karl dalen wrote:
>  --- Czech Martin <Martin.Czech at Micronas.com> skrev:
> > Yes, wages tend to go up, but it can take a long time, because
> > there are 1000 Million workers in the back which would like to
> > do the job for half of the current wage.
> >
> > The enormous population is something which should not be underestimated.
> > Gives some inertia.
> > At the same time the population density in Europe (can´t tell how it is in
> > the
> > Americas) is actually going down ( if no immigration is taking place).
> >
> > In my old university the rate of newcomers for EE has fallen to 1/3!!
> > All the others just can´t be lawyers or economics guys.
>
>This is a common thing across europe, every engineering uni have had
>a major drop in EE, most blame the IT bubble for that i suppose!

And foresight. Who wants a job that was never that well paid to start with, 
when anyone with a brain can see that they're going to be outsourced very, 
very quickly.

Smaller start-ups may do okay, but in corporate-ville, no one is 
indispensible.

Richard