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Old September 6th, 2006, 08:48 PM
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Default Re: OT: Intel Laying Off Workers

There is greed, and then there is GREED. Wanting stuff is human nature, but when your already a multi-milloniar limits have to be set.

When is enough money enough? Look at Bill Gates, 50 billion plus and he still tells people that he wants to be the first American Trillionair. That is pure greed and should NEVER be fostered, supported, or encouraged.

When the multi-million and billionairs shaft lower income people, mostly their workers, to make a couple extra dollars, then they are nothing more than SOB's who need to meet a sudden and painful end.

Hell the interest they earn on the money they already have is in most cases sever times that of the annual earnings of any middle class family. Why do they need more when they already have so much? Greed.... this is why greed is one of the seven sins.

Its funny, if your rich and greedy you make millions, if your average joe blow and greedy you never can seem to get ahead. So the old saying that you have to have money to make money is true. There are literally two types of people in this capitalistic world of ours, those who pay interest, and those who earn interest.

But enough with that, Intel has been so focused on profits that they as a business dropped the ball allowing AMD to score big off of their mistake. While I generally dislike AMD chips, and favor Intel's, I hate Intel because of how they conducted busines in the past.

They had a monopoly share of the lions den and did everything they could to prevent fair competition. Instead of allowing it, embracing it, and using it energize their products, they circled the wagons and held firm to a failing business model. Now it has come back to bite them in the *** and in the process several thousand people are going too or have already lost thier jobs.

Such is life. Your livelyhood is not really yours to control. When I bought my home in 98 I was making $45,000 a year and my prospects for success looked unstoppable. Then within a couple of months it was all gone. There are no garrentees in life, no magic pills or teflon shields that can protect you from finacial harm when the very things you have come to relay upon for success fail.

Intel could have done a better job at marketing and working the market to their advantage, but they didn't, and now the workers are going to pay the prices. And ultimately the tax payers as well because Intel will black mail the state in order to get lower taxes. Thats wrong, it should not be aloud to happen.
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