Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment.

[Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>]

Chad R. Meiners <crmeiners@hotmail.com> wrote:
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: "Georg Bauhaus" <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in message
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:> Chad R. Meiners <crmeiners@hotmail.com> wrote:
:> : While I did make $10 once for programming a neighbor's VCR, I would
: hardly
:> : call that 'type' of programming a profession ;-)
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:> I a sense though it is, here.
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: What?!!?

In the following sense.
If you help some neighbour or friend installing the lates RPC
patch, once, or twice, then in a non-technical sense this isn't
professional work, for sure.
If organisations rely on cheap students' work to keep the computer
network running, then this is professional work, but not professional
payment, insurance, etc.

Walls in students' hostels are regularly painted by a handful of students
who will receive payment which seems lower than what painters would get.
Students are not painters in general, and this isn't charity
work either. Painters can't do their job because students are in a
position that allows them to be cheap. 

If in a city like Cologne (about 1Mio inhabitants) students would have
to be regular employees, instead of working for just the "cash of this evening"
the estimate is that the Cologne gastronomy would break down immediately.
(Professional waiters and students will pay quite different sums to health
insurance companies, and students usually do not pay for liability insurance
because that is done by their parents for the whole family, for example.)

If a student sees a handful of EUR for the delivery of some program
or service, he or she doesn't think that much about how this sum is
sufficient for a living as a professional. I see them as freelancers
but they charge much less, which is part of what companies find
attractive.

The effect of this kind of work, and employment, is that those who
do this work as their profession (programmers, painters, ...)
suffer from price dumping on the labour market.