re: National Socio-Economic Security Need for Encryption Technology

[Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>]

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                          SANDY SANDFORT
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C'punks,

On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Bart Croughs wrote:

> If American companies are moving capital to Third World
> countries because of the low wages in these countries, then the
> workers in the Third World will of course be better off. But in
> the US, the amount of capital will be lowered. So the American
> workers will be able to get other jobs, but these jobs will pay
> less, because of the diminished amount of capital in the US.

The fallacy in this argument is the assumption that because some
American capital moves overseas, there will be less capital 
available in the US for investment/wages.  It doesn't contemplate
infusion of foreign capital investments in American industries 
that have a competitive advantage over their foreign competition.


 S a n d y

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