Re: Resolved: Technical communicators can create information

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

All labor is a commodity, and it always has been.  The only difference between a 
factory assembler whose job can be offshored with less decision-making effort 
than ordering a latte and a top-echelon developer who can walk across the street 
in the US and get a new job the same day the old one goes away is cost; how much 
will it cost to hire and train someone else somewhere else, move projects, etc. 
Becoming more "SME value-added" doesn't prevent a writer from becoming 
commoditized, it merely increases the cost and effort involved in a decision to 
offload the writer.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Hood" <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>
> We are already a commodity. It's been that way for years. No I don't like it 
> but I have to acknowledge reality. We got commoditized in 2000 when the tech 
> stock bubble started imploding and companies desperate to cut costs decided 
> that Bengalis and Taiwanese would give them documents that are "good enough" 
> by their definition at half the cost. The fact that we don't like being 
> commoditized doesn't change anything.

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