Foreign markets

Worrying news the other day. It seems that there will soon be more people with broadband internet in China than there are online in the USA.

And this from a country that doesn’t even like the internet and does its best to stop people doing much online.

What’s worrying about this is all those Chinese internet users need a PC, and if they all buy the cheap PCs made in….China….then who’s going to supply all the cheap PCs for our customers?

This really won’t do. China is supposed to be a source of cheap labour and even cheaper manufactured goods.

If they get on the internet and find out what people get paid outside, then who’s going to work for bugger all to build the toys we need?

When everyone on earth has a PC connected to the internet, what then?

Perhaps we really should be looking for extra-terrestrial life forms, and we’d better hope they haven’t discovered free-market economics yet, so we can exploit the heck out of them while they learn.