The people on this boat are considered people who have to physically be in the country to provide a service to their customers, they are not simply providing a product. Many lawyers and doctors fall into this category, as do cashiers and many other positions. Reich explains why the second boat stays afloat longer even though it's going down by saying, "In-person servers are protected from the direct effects of global competition and, like everyone else, benefit from access to low-cost products from all over the world” ( Reich, 1991, p. 311) He then discusses the indirect effects of the global market on the second boat. One example is that as more and more people from the first boat get laid off, they start looking for jobs in companies that offer more job security. This provides more competition for jobs that are not so readily available to meet the demands of the number of people applying for them. Another limiting resource that replaces many of these jobs is machines, as Reich predicts in his essay, “the fiercest competition…comes from labor-saving machinery. ATMs, computerized cashiers, automatic car washes…” (Reich, 1991, p. 312) as well as many other examples of machines. These machines will soon surpass the need for humans to actually take part in these jobs, which will increase profits for the upper class, but prevent the poor from achieving a higher standard of living.