Barriers to entry (was RE: Boeing Tech Pubs going offshore? (long )

[MList -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com]

Well, it's a temptation that only integrity can  resist: 
to get somewhere first and get a good thing going 
and then pull up the rope ladder and thumb your nose at all 
the "foreigners" (often from the same countries that your 
parents called home) who are trying to follow behind and 
grow for themselves what you did for yourself. 
Oh, wait. 
That's not it. It's not the first couple of generations 
that achieve ungenerosity. It's the later ones, who have 
the abundance handed to them, who erect the walls. 

Or, to tie to related initiative, the creation of guild-like 
barriers-to-entry can be a characteristic not of the pioneers 
in an industry, but to those who entered when it was largely 
built and wanted to ensure their level of comfort and protection, 
and maybe supplement their incomes with the entry fees from 
the upcoming wannabees.

I'm not saying that anybody is doing the latter, I'd just 
like them to keep not doing it.

/kevin

Chris [mailto:cud -at- telecable -dot- es] asked:
> Are you saying India and Chile have a right to resent the US, then?
[...]
 
> > The only thing I could see as a legitimate source of resentment 
> > would be if the respective countries (emerging as hotbeds of 
> > tech-writing) were to throw up arbitrary/artificial barriers 
> > to us former top-dawgs emigrating and getting employed.

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