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Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. calls out iPad as a job-killer (tuaw.com)
1 point by shawndumas on April 16, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Reminds me of a story I heard a long time ago.

While touring the Soviet Union, a foreign dignitary saw a team of a hundred workers digging an irrigation canal with shovels. The foreign dignitary commented that, with adequate machinery, a single worker could create the canal in a couple hours. The Soviet representative replied: "We prefer using workers with shovels so we create more jobs for our comrades". To that, the foreign dignitary replied "Then, why don't you use a thousand workers with spoons instead of a hundred with shovels?"




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