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A Thoughtful Look at Indian Outsourcing
thefinite writes "This article needs to be read by anyone interested in the outsourcing of IT jobs to India, no matter your opinion of it. It dispels some rumors (for example, if Indian IT companies do such bad work, why are over half of Carnegie Mellon's highest-rated programming companies Indian?). It addresses all of the arguments. Perhaps most importantly, it adds faces to the problem. It not only tells us about the American programmers who are out of jobs, but also about the Indians who are getting them. In the end of it, this is what Free Trade is about: people. This article makes that clear."
but this article has to be extraordinary, as Michael didn't put even a single flamebait word at the end of the posting.
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Now I go reading
It's Americans hiring cheaper labor to do a job. I don't want to pay more for software products (or any products) so that some overpriced American programmers can keep being overpaid.
If you want a welfare check, just ask for it, but don't gripe about American companies doing what's best for themselves and consumers.
Amazing magic tricks
Programmers are free to work for less money. If it were possible to ship a Big Mac over from India quickly enough, McDonalds would outsource its employees too. Doing so saves consumers money, makes the company more profit, or both.
If you want a welfare check, just ask for it.
Corporate managers are paid to cut costs. That may not fit into your ideal lifestyle choices, but you are free to start your own corporation and compete with the evil ones if you think you're on to a better alternative.
Amazing magic tricks
1) India
... well ... it just leads the paranoid Americans to wonder who'll be next in sniping the American economy. Stay tuned.
2) China
3) Mexico
4) Everybody else
Well, in this update, India's really stormed the scene, knocking off the previous leaders. What happened to China and Mexico? I thought NAFTA and China's induction into
Um, no the primary purpose of corporations is to make money, plain and simple. If you do not understand that then perhaps you do not deserve that nice highpaying programming job.
A "Right"? Did I really just hear you say you have the "Right" to complain becuase you lost a job? You say that keep your children and wife in clothes and a house has nothing to do with ego. You are right. But the idea that ANY job is below, has too low a wage, or doesn't give you enough benefits.... that is completely ego driven. It's all about a society in the US (as you have so obviously shown) of unrealistic expectations and incredibly overblown egos. But the overblowing of egos is so large, and so widespread, that you don't even realize it's happened. You don't have a right to any job. A college education does not give you the right to expect any salary. You do not have any economic rights at all. Wake up smell the coffee. In a world where Americans live better than probably 80% of the people in the world (SWAG there, but probably close) there will and IS going to be a normalization. Learn to cope.