[IP] Offshoring helps the economy... if you're a CEO who offshores.

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Esther Dyson <edyson@edventure.com>
Date: September 1, 2004 1:57:47 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net, ip@v2.listbox.com
Subject: Re: [IP] Offshoring helps the economy... if you're a CEO who 
offshores.

this is such a misuse of statistics it's hard to know where to start.

perhaps these companies perform better - or are larger - in the first 
place. What percentage of jobs are going offshore? and what's happening 
to their US employment?  What's cause and what's effect and what is 
correlation based on other factors? the numbers cited are meaningless - 
at least in the way they are cited.

I appreciate your sending these things our way but this one is not 
honest opinion - it's dressed-up facts - and deserves some rebuttal 
(which this is not.... this merely says that meaning is more 
complicated than a collection of numbers).

Esther

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