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Originally Posted by stufflikethat
Example: my team had a match with one of the Mexican teams. Awesome people for sure, but we couldn't work together when the game was all about assists. This blatantly caused us to lose.
In all I understand FIRST's desire to expand, but let's focus on expanding in North America before we go across the world.
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As a VEX mentor, we've played with roboteers from Mexico, China and Singapore: They have had people that speak better English than I do
so communications isn't the problem. I'll guess that their "strategy" didn't match yours.
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Originally Posted by Richard Wallace
A rising tide lifts all boats.
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It does. I think part of the prior posts is frustration that we are getting kicked to the curb (hence the USfirst reference). But I watched jobs move to Ireland and their wages moved up. Then to India and their wages moved up. Then to China and the wages and costs move up and now off to Viet Nam. But I'm also seeing a trickle back to the US as the costs level.
[soapbox] Business leaders need to look at the long term, not quarter by quarter. If someone looked at the cost of moving from the US through 5 different countries, they would be appalled. But I work in a generation of "me make the most money" in management. But I live in a world of "make engineers", so I'm going with the "float".
I'm also not a fan of iTech (iThings, Facepaper, Tweetme, etc) I can't drive them, sit on them, eat them, mow the grass with them, etc. I'll be happy when we get done pushing data around and start building stuff again.
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