Slashdot Mirror
How India is Saving Capitalism
alphakappa writes "Salon goes onsite to Chennai (Madras) in India to investigate the whole offshoring phenemenon (free daypass) and comes up with an interesting series of stories. Katharine Mieszkowski starts with a company CollabNet which creates collaboration software for teams to work together on projects from locations all over the globe, and has centers in Brisbane (CA,US) and Chennai (India) - a company that would not exist if they didn't have access to engineers from India. She makes the case that in most cases, it is the necessity to survive, rather than greed that has fed the offshoring process. As Behlendorf from CollabNet puts it - 'We saved the jobs of the people who are employed in San Francisco by hiring people here [in India],' he says. 'I don't know that we would be around as a company if we hadn't done that. What was the right thing to do, morally?'"
And the executives whose job you saved thank you!
Spend less time on slashdot?
Everybody's a libertarian 'till their neighbour's becomes a crack house.
How India is Saving Capitalism
Isn't it a day late for april fools articles?
Wow, this perfectly parallels today's Doonesbury strip. Couldn't fit better if they'd planned it.
How many of those jobs are in "manufacturing" cheeseburgers?
It's immoral because the job of businesses is not to maximise shareholder value by increasing their cost-effectiveness - their job is to provide a welfare service to Slashdot readers who were laid off after the dot-com crash. Duh.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Because if you start sleeping with your secretary, and it turns out she's your cousin, you are remitted to go live in Alabama.
Karl Marx called.. he wants his failed idea back.
Isn't that immoral?
--
This sig is inoffensive.
Fat and happy?
Fuck you, man.
Proverbs 21:19
> As many people are still wanting the wife/husband, 2.3 kids
.3's from posting trolls to slashdot.
If only we could keep the
Norman Cook's Ode to Sl
LMFAO! Dude, that's the funniest shit I've read here in a while. Of course people are complaining now, being self-righteous pedants is starting to bite them in the ass. When you tell someone that the crux of your job should be done for free, they're eventually gonna take you up on the offer.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
Those people are people who don't matter. Look the stock market can support almost every American. Anyone can save up a few thousand dollars and buy stock instead of a car.
People don't exist to serve systems, systems exist to serve people.