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The Unstoppable Shift of IT Jobs Overseas

Posted by michael on from the adapt-or-die dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Advocates of freedom don't advocate this. by Daengbo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The corporations want to make more profit, and the way to do it is to get rid of expensive American workers and get cheap over-sea's labor.
    By coincidence, I live a block from the Thai-Mandarin Garment Factory, where former US textile jobs have been for about twenty years. If you want a job, they're always hiring.
    The starting salary is US$3.50 a day.
    Wake the fuck up and start doing something about it before we're all working at Wal-Mart or McDonald's.
    Welcome to globalization. Hope you're ready to change professions like my American friends in the clothing industry did twenty years ago. The jobs don't move back to America. Trust me.

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