This week I would like to share my expression to the current situation of the U.S economy, job loss, which is one of the most crucial problem and now it is striking many individuals and families. Second, a perspective view will be given about e-book, a hot feature, which is making significant impacts upon book manufactures and technology innovations.
If you still remember the news happened last two weeks that Hyatt hotels laid off hundreds of their housekeepers in Massachusetts, were you considered the program that the government held to create more job in order to beautify the unemployment rate was a good idea? Although I’m not an economist, my gut tells me that is not a positive attitude should government take into account. The essential difficulty threaten against the unemployment, in my point of view, are illegal employment and immigrants, who are limiting legal residents rights of finding jobs. Because the U.S government looks like they had never taken those problem seriously, especially to those illegal immigrants for many decades. President Obama made a promise during the presidential election and sited that he will solve the problem in the future. Let’s see if it will give a great help to the U.S economy.
In Taiwan, how do people find the way out to deal with the high unemployment rate? Nowadays many freshmen, who just graduated from high school, tend to set up their carrier plan earlier as the result from the economic crisis. Some of them start to prepare for qualified exam one or two years before graduating from college to get the chance working for government. In other words, they look for any job relates to government-run organizations, such as TPC (Taiwan Power Company)1, CPC Corporation2, Taiwan, civil servant, etc. Of course, volunteer army is an option. Those are the jobs that you can earn stable wages and hardly to be laid off. All you have to do is get a higher score then you can work for government for twenty years and benefitted from exclusive welfare. It’s kind of keen competition though, but it worth to give yourself a try in Taiwan.
According to this week Weekend Business, e-book, a newly developed feature brings an excitement to the Internet technology and makes publishers nervous about file sharing technique. In my perspective, it’s still not the time should publishers worry about the sales decline. As we know, Amazon.com brought a new e-book reader called “kindle”3, which allows customers download e-books to the high capacity reader, kindle, and save more spaces from managing hard copy books. However, I believe most of people, like me, prefer the reading pleasure by holding a “real” book on my hands. I can’t imagine how do we consider “reading” without flipping pages. Hence, se don’t need to worry about the piracy problem as much as sharing music on the Internet yet.
In summary, it needs time to get rid of the job lost problem as long as the U.S government can take the right medicine to cure Uncle Sam’s illness. We still have to be optimistic to get through the economic crisis. Plus, I really want to take a look at “kindle” and see how it works.
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