Lee Alley

London

Business Owner

This seems yet another example of the IT/dotcom mentality in which someone who is (ostensibly) an expert in one field feels quite happy to extend that expertise to life, the universe and everything. Mr Brampton seems to be stuck in a 70's time warp in which discredited economic assumptions, such as the Lump of Labour fallacy, are still received wisdom. There are innumerable sources of evidence demonstrating productivity increases are inextricably tied to rises in standard of living. Same with GDP growth but on an indirect correlation and a much longer time horizon but it's still there. Whether IT contributes to any of this is debatable. Lamentably Mr Brampton's article might have had more credibility had he limited its scope to this issue. As it stands, though, his fundamental mistakes only add credence to Cisco's Mr Chambers and those advocating outsourcing/offshoring.