This NY Times article (dumb registration required) is sobering. I’ve been talking about how much I would like to be free from a 9 to 5 job. After reading this article, I may have to start talking about how much I NEED to be free from a 9 to 5. The Internet has advanced globalization like nothing else before. Corporations are off-shoring not only because it is cheaper, but because the workers in India, China, etc., are hungrier for jobs, work harder and, in many cases, are as smart, if not smarter, than American workers (a result of the failings of our educational system). Corporations as we know them may indeed disappear; they’ll become shells of companies with the meat in other countries. There is no such thing as a patriotic corporation. Hence, the NEED to be free from a 9 to 5 job as soon as possible, not just the desire. Read the article. It examines the many factors contributing to globilization and how individual Americans are ill-prepared to compete globally.