Ben Compton <BCOMPTON@novell.com> discusses the one time boom:
>...Finally, the baby-boomers had grown many organizations beyond their needed
>capacity. Thus we see companies like AT&T say their going to lay off
>40,000 workers...
There is another aspect that this discussion is overlooking. There has
been enormous growth in companies around the world. In my IT world,
companies like Intel, MicroSoft, Oracle and dozens of others have grown
from nothing in barel 15 years.
In the fifties, car companies were dropping like flies. In the seventies.
steel companies disappeared as major players. This cycle will continue
forever as new technologies drive new opportunities. There is a continuing
boom in travel and health maintenance, for example.
The major change I have observed is the completeness and sensational
treatment by the media. Addressograph-Multigraph died quietly in the
seventies when their core businesses were replaced by different
technology. How many list members have ever heard of them? Today, it would
have been widely-reported. Comments? ....Keith
--Keith Cowan <72212.51@CompuServe.COM>
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