Re:I don't get it. (Score 2, Interesting)

I think that the main point of this article wasn't that the people where "whining" about the $8.00 jobs out there. It's the way the lower payed workforce is being strongarmed by large corporations like HP and Manpower without any recourse in an undemocratic or civil manner. Got checkout Manpower Inc profit last quarter up 3% to 18.7% in a fading market? What was HP's? How much is HP paying Manpower to take away all those sticky issues like weekly paychecks and employee rights? How does Manpower justify its value add? Is this progress or opportunism? This article is highlighting the possible future or your "higher CS" job. Basically and as you have mentioned above, there will always be $8 p/h jobs and people to do them. Something to remember is that we need people to do lower paid jobs, you know all that lowly stuff like garbage and manufacturing and all that lowly physical layer stuff, whilst your doing all that important stuff like recompiling perl 5.53 for the 50th time.