>>Nightmare scenario:
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>>ALL the jobs are outsourced to developing countries, employment reaches 100% there, workers in the West, like the article says, take more and more pay cuts, until pay is equivalent to what the, now, affluent eastern workers USED TO earn (they've been getting pay rises as affluence rises), the now developed countries, having more work than they can cope with, start outsourcing to the West.
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>>:-(
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>Not Nightmare - Reality
>3 years ago $500 was a good salary
>In December 2004 avarage programmers' salary is $2100.
>Students without experience require at least $500

There you go! I never thought of Bulgaria as a developing country though, no more than, say, Russia, just, well, easter European. In UK asians came in the 50's, after WW II, to make up the man-power shortage, and took on many menial tasks. One role was the "corner shop" that never closed, all the family working hard and long hours. Now, near us, one family owns a chain of convenience stores, you never see them, and the stores are run by whites. Neat and ironic.