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BusinessWeek on Outsourcing
hotsauce writes "BusinessWeek has a couple of stories on the outsourcing of white collar jobs to India. One is a cover story on GE's fundamental research lab in Bangalore where scientists work on everything from the aerodynamics of turbines to plastics' molecular structure. The other is commentary on "America's worst-kept secret", and the effects of the upcoming elections on it."
I dont know why Slashdot is repeating this topic so very often.
I wonder if the editors of Slashdot are paranoid that their jobs may be sent overseas!
Slashdot is turning into a "bash your way to popularity" scheme, where they just ignite pent up anger among the foolish populace with a spark!
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it just needed to be said!
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In all the talk about outsourcing to India, I keep wondering when CxO's and VP's will wake up to the fact that India and Pakistan both have *nukes* pointed at each other. It wouldn't take much for *another* military takeover of Pakistan to start a real war (extremists tend to not flinch at the possibility of killing lots of people).
Even without nukes, both countries have a large population they could throw at each other (India being more capable in this area).
Who in their right mind would invest heavily in such an immensely instable region? "We" are "over there" right now (Afganistan and Iraq) so business folks "feel good" about that area. When we leave (ok, *if* we leave) or if there's a big-ish skirmish between Pakistan "rebels" and/or Indian "rebels", we may just see all the jobs come running home.
Mind the gap...