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The Full Outsourcing Discussion

Posted by Hemos on from the ultimately-it's-better-for-everyone dept.

GileadGreene writes "Thomas Friedman of the New York Times recently did an interesting Op-Ed piece about the "silver lining of overseas outsourcing": the growth that it generates in the US job market as Indian companies outsource work that US workers are better at. Apparently total exports from US companies to India have grown from $2.5 billion in 1990 to $4.1 billion in 2002 as well. So maybe this outsourcing thing isn't so bad after all." Ultimately, free trade works out well; I think one of the issues is that white collar jobs are just beginning to feel the pinch, and are acting like manufacturers did in the 1970s and 1980s.

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  1. Outsourcing Slashdot by sabat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ultimately, free trade works out well; I think one of the issues is that white collar jobs are just beginning to feel the pinch, and are acting like manufacturers did in the 1970s and 1980s.

    It's easy enough for Hemos to say that -- until his job at ./ gets outsourced to India or the Philippines. You know, it'd be pretty easy to do that for all the ./ editors ... hmmmm ...

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    1. Re:Outsourcing Slashdot by S.+Baldrick · · Score: 3, Funny

      And as a bonus, their English skills would improve.

  2. An indian project management checklist... by D-Cypell · · Score: 4, Funny

    * Server implementation in latest tech - We'll do that

    * XSLT internationalized web gui - We'll do that too

    * SOAP and XML-RPC interface - Us again

    * Integration with legacy COBOL system - Give it back to the yanks

  3. Re:Free Trade helps megacorps by wfberg · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where does Coke bottle the water? They don't ship it over from the US. They probably have a filtering and bottling plant down the street.

    True, but the local bottlers must license the secret formula for water from Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta, GA.

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  4. Outsource Everything! by MisanthropicProggram · · Score: 3, Funny
    That's right! Everything! Well, except defense.
    Then we tax every corp in the world, regardless of whether they do business in the U.S. or not, for the privilage of being able to sell in the US. If they don't pay, well, they'll be considered a rogue corp and dealt with occordingly.

    This way we (in the U.S.) can sit around on our asses and do nothing! Think about it - permanent vacation!!!
    Some people, I think the Morphia or something like that, invented this a few years ago. They call it "protection" I think.
    Something to consider.

    Yes, I'm joking.

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  5. Re:let the lawyers compete against H1-Bs too by fnj · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I guarantee you we wouldn't have an H1-B and an outsourcing problem if these programs targeted lawyers."

    Muahahaha! Quite so, sir. You're ahead of me.

    I cheer myself by imagining a fantasy world where there are H1Bs for politicians.