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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?'"
Also, remember that a free market DOES provide ways to tell vendors what the majority wants. Namely, supporting companies that manufacture goods in the U.S. or do not outsource employees. I know it takes a lot of effort to organize such a campaign, but it IS possible. I personally try to buy any goods that are made U.S. over ones that are not. And yes, I know, many goods are composed of parts made outside the U.S. (cars comes to mind), but you do the best you can when you believe in something. So just don't buy Dell computers if you don't like outsourcing, for example.
Do you have a source to back that up? Because I have a source that debunks it. Both countries make net gains.
is all the socialist employment / environmental laws the US politicos keep passing to get reelected - like the Clinton era family leave act. That costs employers real money, the end result of which is employers go to where they don't have to play by those rules, nice as they sound.
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