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A Lose-Lose Situation

Yay, back! Haven't done a lot of blog reading today as, every time I came across something I wanted to mention, it frustrated me more that I couldn't get onto Blogger to write about it. At least the majority of the upstairs-to-downstairs neighbor move seems complete. I'm suppressing any and all "now you'll see what it's like having people rudely move furniture on top of your head at all hours!" revenge fantasies; not even sure they're fully out of the upstairs flat yet, although we don't believe they slept there last night and we heard lots of drilling up there today (who knows?). Besides, it's not in our nature to be as thoughtless and self-centered as they turned out. For one, we have carpeting.

Anyway, Rob spotted two articles in the NY Times this morning on the move of the Etch-A-Sketch factory from Bryan, Ohio to China, both written by Joseph Kahn. Here's the Ohio-based perspective in the National section, and here's the Chinese angle in the International one, where the workers claim they make even less than the pittance the company insists it pays them. Is it coincidence that an article entitled Who Wins and Who Loses as Jobs Move Overseas? also appears in today's Business section, and is it just me who thinks that the Times has answered its own question (i.e., nobody wins if you're talking about actual people) with Kahn's two articles?