The Internet has created 1.2 million jobs
THE WORLD WIDE WIBBLE has created 1.2 million jobs since last year and most of them pay more than average, according to a study by Hamilton Consultants.
The study shows that Internet commerce makes up 2.1 per cent or $300 billion of US GDP. Apparently dotcoms are doing better than they did during the IT retrenchment of 2000-2002 and are no longer folding right and left like used origami paper. The ones that are still around, that is.
More than 10 per cent of retail purchases are now made online and Internet-based advertising revenues have increased to more than $20 billion.
The employment figures are based on people who work directly in building or maintaining the Internet's infrastructure, or have something to do with advertising or e-commerce and other direct uses.
Taking into account the number of indirect jobs supported by Internet business would double the figures, the report reckoned. µ
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Thank you Federal Government for creating the initial backbone.
Thank you publicly funded CERN for providing us with HTML.
Thank you Al Gore for pushing the Federal Government to opening up the internet to us slobs.
Thank you Microsoft for writing the shoddiest piece of swiss cheese security product.
Thank you Internet for filling those MS-laden PC-s with viruses.
I would be out of a well paying job if PC-s would be secure and users weren't dumb.
BLACK Friday, Forever: Day Televison Went Blank, EveryWhere for Everyone. No Channels, Even Ultee' trick of UHF Tuner Wheel spinning NO Longer Brings In Satelite. Its DEAD Deal.
Wait, Theres Hope. By having Date Pushed Back, Pundits Had Extra Pay Period to go Over & Over & Over DTV Factoids.
Money rolling In to Repeat Oneself, Endlessly for Period. BIG Monie. Only SoftWare developement could of been more redundant. well, except did they ever play NCAA Basket Weaver? & What about That Gold?
Shurely if there are 1.2 million of them, one must be able to take time to turn up to Mac Expo each year?
Now that Craigslist has removed its ads for online hookers about half those Internet created jobs are now gone due to lack of promotional opportunities.