Re: Salary bell curve: on the downside

[Elna Tymes <etymes -at- lts -dot- com>]

Bruce Byfield wrote:

> If I'm wrong, I hope someone will correct me, but my impression is that,
> just as other parts of the continent never had as big a share of the
> prosperity as Silicon Valley, they don't have as big a share of the
> depression.

You're both wrong and right.  My original post talked about the computer industry,
not specifically Silicon Valley.  With Dell and Compaq and Gateway and other
computer makers laying off thousands, I think it's safe to say that the slow economy
is industry-related, and only incidentally geographic.  Because Silicon Valley is so
computer-centric, obviously we're feeling the slowdown more than perhaps other areas
of the country.  And since technology and computer-related development led the
economy of the country for the last 8 years or so, yes Silicon Valley experienced a
large part of the resulting prosperity.

Elna Tymes


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