BBLISA: Re: Overqualified?!?!

[alex at basespace.net (Alex Aminoff)]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Dean Anderson wrote:

> Farmers don't have this capability. If you don't sell the cattle, you
> don't have room to raise more, and you have to keep feeding them. If you
> don't sell the grain, it rots.  You have to keep selling. If the price
> drops, you lose. There is nothing you can do, but hope it doesn't last too
> long.  The markup from Farm to Supermarket is about 1000 percent. The
> farmer is at the mercy of the food chain. pun intended.

Several farms are trying to escape this trend by eliminating as much of 
the chain as possible. We belong to a Community Supported Agriculture 
farm, where we pay a yearly fixed fee, and in exchange get a box of fresh 
organic vegetables delivered each week. We pay the farm directly and they 
own and drive the truck that delivers the vegetables.

My suggestion for the IT industry would be similar: try to eliminate 
layers of middlemen between those who need IT services and those who 
provide it. Small, employee-owned consulting shops who find clients 
directly, not allowing any agency to take a cut, are ideal.

 - Alex Aminoff
   BaseSpace.net