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Jobs to India -- A Broad Look
dumpster_dave writes "Wired has an excellent 7 page article on the current and future trend and nature of IT outsourcing from the United States. The conclusion: the smell of inevitability--the economy will survive, though your job, as it is currently, will likely not. Outsourcing is expected to expand from Service and code projects to the creative aspects as well, with obvious correlations experienced in the manufacturing industry during the 70s and 80s. An excellent read that provides good coverage of the perspectives of players on all sides."
Enough said.
...the link to the article is already colored visited from when you read it last Friday.
Maybe I should karma-whore a little bit and repost some of the highly moderated comments from last time?
How many times are we going to link to this article? Seven? Twelve? As many times as there are grains of sand in the Ganges?
That's what happens when /. moderation is outsourced to India.
Please to be joining me in welcome our hand-coding hundu overlords.
And how is this supposed to happen? Those who do not end up on the streets will be training as Fryolator operators working for enough money to pay the rent.
The only good thing I can see out of this is that all the malls will close.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
can I get a job as a Slashdot article duplication identifier?
Practice Kind Randomness and Beautiful Acts of Nonsense.
Yea but the editor has been outsourced to India.
What do you expect?
Omnis amans amens
If you don't like this fad, wait five minutes...
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...and it will be reposted on
Well, actually we are mainly expanding overseas to cut the costs of production, but once everybody (middle and lower classes) will move in countries where there are jobs (oversea), the companies won't even have to pay transport as most of the customers will be in the countries oversea: even lower costs!
Don't you know it is now both immoral and criminal to think beyond the next quarterly report?
Nobody ever talks about how this will affect our industry 10-20 years down the road!
By then people will have forgotten it's a dupe! Duh!
to my counterpart in India. I hope he doesnt troll!
Rapid Nirvana
Someone did. They modded you insightful :-)
--- Ban humanity.
...when each new issue comes out? Just post every big story at once and be done with this nonsense.
So what you're saying is that the future of our country depends on the entire population moving into trailer homes? And only then will we cheap enough in comparison to the rest of the world to get work? And only then can we get rich?
Suddenly my stupid uncle living in the trailer doesn't seem so stupid. After all, he lives without working at all, while I bust my ass at a keyboard. I thought that I was living on the cutting edge of society. I was one of the first people with a computer in their home. I was sending e-mail when there were only 100,000 people on the Internet. I was using Linux when there were only 100,000 users. Little did I know that my good ol' Uncle Bob in the trailer wasn't a throwback, but that he was the avant garde of society. For the past 30 years, he's been trying to show all of us the way to live, pointing us all towards the future dream of a single-wide trailer and a rusty K-car out front. How did I get it so wrong?
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
Except Defense!
Then, have corps. ALL OVER THE WORLD pay 40% income tax to the U.S. for the priviledge and pleasure of selling us their goods and services. This tax is then evenly distributed to all Americans. That way, we can just sit on our asses!
There is no spoon or sig.
Oh, we'll be telephone sanitizers, middle management, hairdressers....
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Speak for yourself.
*I'LL* be a Telecommunications Sanitation Engineer.
Then we'll send all of those brilliant scientists and evil CEOs to another planet. Why didn't I think of that?
EVERYDAY IS CATURDAY
I doubt you could eat $0.50 worth or rice, purchased in bulk.
Need protein? Leave some rice out and kill the rats.
I'm only half joking. Ha!
..don't panic
Jobs to India: A Second Look
Oh, we'll be telephone sanitizers, middle management, hairdressers....
Forget middle management. With no workers left to manage, who needs a middle manager? From now on, kids coming out of school will have to start at the top. Let's see - how many new CEOs do we need this year?
Hmm. He's been doing this for a year. I doubt he is going to get caught.
And if he did get caught, you know what they would probably do? Fire all of his co-workers, make him a manager, and get him to hire 5 other Indians.
OBHHGTTGR
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Your reference to shoes brings to mind the Shoe Event Horizon from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's planet Brontitol.
"The Shoe Event Horizon is now a firmly established, and rather sad economic phenomenon which, in future times will be taught as part of the basic Middle School Life, the Universe, and Everything syllabus.
TEACHER: Stand up! Harsh Economic Truths, Class 17. You are standing up?
STUDENT: Yes.
T: Good. You are living in an exciting, go-ahead civilization. Where are you looking?
S: Up.
T: What do you see?
S: The open sky, the stars, an infinite horizon.
T: Correct... You are living in a stagnant, declining civilization. Where are you looking?
S: Down.
T: What do you see?
S: My shoes.
T: Correct. What do you do to cheer yourself up?
S: I buy a new pair.
T: Correct! Now, imagine everone does the same thing... everyone buys new shoes, what happens?
S: More shoes.
T: And?
S: More shoe shops.
T: Correct... and in order to support all these extra shoe shops, what happens?
S: Everyone must keep buying shoes.
T: And how is that arranged?
S: Manufacturers dictate more and more different fashions of and make shoes so badly that they either hurt the feet or fall apart.
T: So that?
S: Everyone has to buy more shoes.
T: Until?
S: Until... everyone gets fed-up with lousy, rotten shoes.
T: And then what?
S: Massive capital investment by the manufacturers to try and make people buy the shoes.
T: Which means?
S: More shoe shops.
T: And then we reach what point?
S: The Shoe Event Horizon! The whole economy overbalances. Shoe shops outnumber every other kind of shop. It becomes economically impossible to build anything other than shoe shops.
T: Now, what's the final stage?
S: Um... every shop in the world becomes a shoe shop.
T: Full of?
S: Shoes no one can wear.
T: Result?
S: Famine, collapse, and ruin. Any survivors eventually evolve into birds and never put their feet on the ground again.
T: Excellent! End of lesson."
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The beef industry. It's what's for dinner.
'nuff said.