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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teach your kid a skill that can't be outsourced to places like China or Mexico. There will always be a need for plumbers,  electricians, brick masons, and auto mechanics. The electrician next door is probably better off than his lawyer neighbor.[/quote]

I don't see much of the work that symbolic analysts do--which is what people who go to elite colleges are learning how to do--being outsourced to China or Mexico. Strategy, analysis, management... You can easily outsource data crunching, assembly, and repetitive tasks, but you can't run an organization (I don't mean staff an organization, I mean[i] run [/i]it) without people who know how to think and to lead and who can set a direction and make decisions. Those are skills, just as plumbing and masonry are skills. [/quote]

And you can easily insource trades. Bridge building and civil engineering from China, electrical working, plumbing, and carpentry from Mexico, welding from the Philippines, etc etc etc[/quote]

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