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We now Have the ultimate evidence of the disruptive and transformative power of technology. Buckle your seat belts, Even strippers are being "Displaced" by the lure of the virtual over the physical.
A UPI wire story Reported That Madeline, let's assume that's her real name, blame the Internet for putting her out of work at a gentleman's club Toronto. The 23-year-old dancer she Told the Toronto Star Was Forced to give up her $ 1000 a night pole position and take up bartending.
The UPI reported Madeline's lament, "Why would a guy go to a club and pay to sit There if I Could get it all for free on His computer at home? "Seriously There's something wrong with the ambiance of the Toronto strip clubs When a grainy video in a 3" x3 "square dog compete and defeat 5 '6 "pulchritude of Pulsating with a free tin of peanuts on Every table.
Has the philosophy of Wal-Mart Better Cheaper equals common sense and so Overwhelmed That people prefer Aesthetic Their acumen prurience in private as long as the beer is cheap and the PC does demand STI Any bills tucked in g-string.
Surely this signals the end of live theater, opera, and comedy clubs as well. Why hire the babysitter and schlep downtown to see Rigoletto in person When You Can Just Another DVD flip on the barbie and quaff a cold one while you savor the high notes and hit the bathroom Without waiting for intermission.
This is Not Just a plea from one uninformed hysterical Luddite Because Blaming the free market her own grip on reality, and the pole, slipped. She's backed up by real data. The UPI reported That Have 10 Toronto strip clubs closed in the last five years, and the number of licensed "Burlesque dancers" has tumbled Also – in 2007 from 1.254 to 2.834 in 1998.
Similar Displacements of highly skilled, But Were uni-functional workers seen When CD-ROMs wiped out the market for paper encyclopedias.
Factory workers and middle-class blue collar laborers "across the Developed Economies are feeling the same pinch as global labor arbitrage makes it Cheaper to hire an engineer in India Than A janitor in Sheboygan. At least the janitor might get to keep His job a little longer, sweeping up all the tears as the Unemployed take one last walk Through the factory.
But Madeline has a strategy. She's selling her pole on eBay to purchase an online course in software engineering. She's Developing her own website, This Strip, dot com and she's hiring exotic dancers from the satellite states Surrounding the Former Soviet Union. It's the one place in the World Is Still Where work Cheaper Than Bangalore per minute and the Internet cafes Have plenty of space in back for cameras Because the locals are all at the opera.
The pace at Which technology will transform Beginning is only jobs. What Were eleven localities effects are now one-hundred fold magnified by the global labor arbitrage Between Developed and Developing Countries. As the middle-class gets wiped out over the next twenty to fifty years, while Reach Wage rates equilibrium – a state university Economists Refer to most as "penury for you, Another publication for me" – remember Madeline.
She was highly skilled, undoubtedly Nimble, and pulling in over $ 300,000 a year. Now she's running her own business and expects to be Purchased by Google at a multiple of 50x EBITDA sometime in the next 18 months. Is not technology wonderful?
About the Author
Mr. Grant is a consultant at the Customer Research Center. He works on process optimization and customer experience enhancement projects. Additional information can be reviewed at www.CustomerResearchCenter.com or by emailing Mr. Grant at scgrant@customerresearchcenter.com.
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