Forecast: Doom and Gloom
Tuesday, August 01st, 2006 | Author: kevin

From the we are so totally screwed department:

In a Caribbean Big Business Profile, from July 27, 2006, Jose J. Villamil, president of the island’s principal economic and planning and consulting firm, Estudios Technicos, the top ten jobs list through 2010 are in order of highest percentage growth – administrative support, sales personnel, manufacturing, transportation, food preparation and service, security, construction, education, healthcare, and finally (drum role, please) cleaning and maintenance.

So summarizing, we are going to build a shit load of fast food restaurants, that will require security, because hardly no one will be earning more than minimum wage. there’ll always be room for people to take of our fat and pyshopathic lives, and clean up after us as we completely buy a bunch of crap we don’t need. No one will be able to afford gasoline so, “guaguitas” will be our only way to get around. As it happens today, those that can’t actually get a real job will end up teaching, and the rest will be administrative assistants in the Department of Education. Now isn’t that a pretty picture of our future. Deal with it. It does’t get any realer than this.

From the need anymore proof department:

In the same issue of the Caribbean Business, Archer Lebron, chairman of the board of the Internet Society of Puerto Rico (I-suck-PR) and executive vice president and managing partner of Softek Inc. (gee doesn’t sound like someone’s compensating for something?) said “We talk a lot about a new economy and the Internet is the infrastructure that this new global economy runs on. Right now, only 35% of Puerto Rico’s population is online. [...] In order to be a real player in today’s global markets, Puerto Rico’s Internet penetration must be at least 70% to 80%”

Yes, because the world is holding back the Internet because more Puerto Ricans can’t access the Internet to buy more crap. If this guy is the chairman of I-suck-PR, and doesn’t get that a)Nearly almost all of our major businesses are online already; and 2)Consumers are not needed in Puerto Rico for any company here to join the global economy on the Internet; then what can you expect the brain dead followers that are members of this organization or the clients his company are supposed to think?

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