[gameprogrammer] Re: PC game Outsourcing

Keith Emery wrote:

>This is my first post though I have been a subscriber for over a year. T=
his whole issue (or rather everyone's comments on it) has me flummoxed.
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>How many of you are open source advocates? The strength of open source i=
s the fact that by default, through competition the best (most efficient =
benefitting the most people) solution rises to the top. The important par=
t of this that most people forget is that it has to be the solution that =
benefits the most people. This solution may not be the best in absolute p=
erformance, but it is the best that a significant number of people can af=
ford. This is the free market at work. Capitalism ensures that sooner or =
later the money and the tools of production make it into the hands of the=
 most competent. I know it seems hard to believe when your boss is an idi=
ot or you see some punk inherit a fortune but unless the punk is producti=
ve the money will leave him. It isn't immediate and it isn't perfectly ef=
ficient but it is far more efficient than when a government makes the dec=
isions. Why? Because business operates to make a profit.
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>Outsourcing is the same concept on a different scale. Put all the worlds=
 widget manufacturers together and choose the product from the one that g=
ives you the best product at a price that most customers can afford. If t=
hat means your neighbor loses his job that is too bad. Why should you sub=
sidize a subpar product just to keep your neighbor working? That is the p=
remise the unions have been working on for the last 30 years.
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>The world changes. It is our right and our duty to change with it. We ce=
rtainly can't expect the rest of the world to bend to us. If I could chan=
ge one thing about American education, it would be to teach citizens thei=
r role in a free market economy. You cannot and should not expect someone=
 else to look after you. Your own well being is your responsibility, not =
someone else's. Yet whenever someone proposes a government solution to th=
eir problem, they are abdicating responsibility for themselves and puttin=
g it off on someone else. Likewise, businesses shouldn't be subsidized to=
 behave one way over another. They must operate under the constraints of =
the market and not expect governments to bail them out because they are u=
nable (or unwilling) to make the tough decisions needed to survive.
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>I should have warned you all not to get me started ; )
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>Keith Emery
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Nice analogy.  Nice. I suppose when you see "your" industry going=20
overseas where you cant get at them to even have a chance of gettin a=20
job, its annoying. I dont know what i'd do if nz companys started to=20
outsource to another country. Probably be a sheep farmer....

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