Keeping up with technology [and what it can bring] in any biz - especially in music - is all about change.

Unfortunately, the change in the way senior management is handling cut backs and cost-cutting in the technology sector is to send the work offshore - to India, Malaysia and other countries - where they can get $35 per hr vs $125 here.

The impact to those of us in that sector is two-fold: First we lose our jobs, and assist the company in training our replacements before we turn out the lights, and second we are sending our technology (in which believe me,we ARE the world leader) to countries that have no love for us.

This is turn will cause the rise of none other than the UNIONS UD so laments above. It is inevitable !! Because it's the only way to save our pesky livelihoods, and unions DO have their uses. I'm ambivalent about the subject of unions - but that is not what I'm getting at here tho'.

The irony is - that on one hand the unions are killing the NY theater scene and in the not-to-distant-future will likley be the force behind resurrecting and protecting offshore divestiture of tech sector jobs.

Busines as usual ???????
Regards,
Steve

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