It doesn't surprise me. It's just like everything else. Let's face it, they can sell more $35 video games than $50 ones. The problem with this mentality though is while you can do things cheaper by shipping a job overseas eventually you won't have anyone left with enough money to buy your products back home. Profitability will increase and the stock market will go up for a time, but more and more people will be unemployed and personal debt will soar for those who are not since their wages will never keep up with inflation which will inevitably come back. Greenspan can't live forever, and nobody can control the inflation which will skyrocket overseas, driving up cost, once the "cheap" part of the labor supply begins to diminish. As their countries continue to industrialize their cost of living will go up so the workers will begin demanding more pay, and the inflation spiral will begin.
Eventually two things will happen - you'll run out of exploitable cheap labor, and people in the "old rich" countries will default on their debts and go bankrupt. Oh not all at once, and not instantly to be sure, but it will eventually grind the economic machine to a halt. Once the bubble bursts it won't be pretty, but this absurd rate of economic growth can't be maintained forever. In the mean time enjoy the cheaper games I suppose. :mellow:
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