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The Unstoppable Shift of IT Jobs Overseas
514x0r writes "The spectre in the back of many of our minds is that in a few years we may be replaced by an underpaid programmer in India. Newsforge.com is currently running an article about why this is unstoppable, that actually ends on a positive note...sort of." Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN.
American programmers and other IT people were outstandingly unsympathetic when factory workers' jobs started going overseas 30 or 40 years ago
Newsflash: THERE WAS NO IT INDUSTRY 30 OR 40 YEARS AGO, YOU FRUITCAKE!!!
"Every human being has a right to live a decent life."
Huh? Where did that come from? I mean, UN has passed
a laughably broad and unrealistic human rights
convention but I don't remember even that piece
of toilet paper having such a right there. That
would seem to be from the crazy liberal approach
to life along the lines of "great society" and other
misguided political hubris that almost bancrupted
the US before Reagan.
The person who wrote this article is a flamming asshole. One, I have a real problem with people who believe no one should get sympathy because that person hasn't heard it from a specific group of people. How the hell does this prick know whether or not I care if cab-drivers and steel workers lose their jobs to employees in other countries? The fact is "asshole" that I grew up with steel and I surely do give a flying fuck about it. Just because my chosen interest and choice of employment disturb you doesn't make your misconception of me my problem. Nor does it give you the right to say shut up and take it. In other words, if assholes could fly, this would be the airport, and you would have the biggest plane you meatheaded sack of shit.