On 9/12/06, Wouter van Ooijen <wouter@voti.nl> wrote:
> >   Imagine that the energy price could increase by decreasing your
> > salary...as a fact of inflation of engineers on the (free) market. So,
> > how do you feel than ?
>
> Vasile, I think the western salries will decrease anyway by levelling
> the wealth in the world. I don't much like the way the western world is
> spilling stuff, so I don't think I would object to such a decrease. But
> the other 'balance' is the relative cost of man hours versus energy and
> other resources.

  You have no ideea how much right you have, but from another
perspective on which you never thought because you don't understand
it. Let me explain this in detail. 20 years ago (dark comunism here)
an engineer working in electronic field was almost a God. Do you know
why ? Because there was no information available, no replacement
components (except local manufactured and some from the East socialist
countries, mostly russians, a few czech from Tesla factory etc.)
so the engineer was higly calified even for a transistor replacement
into a colour TV (which was rarely and the buyer need an one year
schedule on the appropiate store before buying his own TV, btw a colur
TV was equal with the salary of one half year or even more - now is
$100 which is about 1/3 of a month for a low qualified romanian
worker).
The TV repair technician or the engineer could not afford to distroy a
HV transistor mounting it into the TV without thinking first, because
it cost so much that two or three events could ruin his monthly
salary... So he read and learn everything about repairment because his
job was in danger.
  Now I have a favourite word: "electronics is like knoking nails in
the walls" everyone could do it because this miracle which is the WEB
offers plenty informations, you have just to read it. (BTW I remember
how I learn ORCAD -the DOS version- without any documentation
available, it was in the era when no web was available).
 Now electronic components are so cheap that almost have no value. In
the same perspective, the engineers work has a limited value.
 I could tell you many about the value of engineering work (from my
own perspective) in a top tech state like US, but better not here...
:)

greetings,
Vasile
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