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Offshoring Trends Net Biotech Firms
Makarand writes "According to this article in the San Francisco Chronicle, BioTech, once considered to be
the next innovative sector to help offset the jobs losses from IT offshoring, is
showing
signs of riding an
offshoring wave of its own. Foreign governments with a national
priority to attract biotech businesses with highly trained research workers and new
research centers are the new forces to reckon with in preventing the
exodus of biotech
jobs. Drug developers are looking at ways to cut costs of drug development as Americans and their employers are starting to constantly worry about the high price of prescription drugs. The lower costs of clinical trials and the ease with which human subjects can be recruited for drug tests in other countries are making biotech jobs susceptible to offshoring."
Anything that is non-American is a target for complaint by Americans, for Americans.
... and can't see outside the box that is their own self-made border ...
... think it works the other way around, though?
... Americans have a view of their relation to the rest of the world that is not only wrong, but downright rude.
People aren't recognizing outsourcing as the positive capitalistic affect that it is, because they are, fundamentally, captives of their own government
All those Americans complaining about losing jobs to India can get Indian work visa's, easily enough
The only thing that is going to save America from itself, is Americans leaving America and living abroard for a while, so as to get their heads out of the sand and see what the world is really like, not what MTV/CNN/Disney tells you it is like
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
So, what ... that makes it okay for America "the greatest nation on earth" to be a country full of stupid, arrogant, ignorant asses?
Everyone else is. Therefore I am too. Yay for progress!
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't outsourcing a shining example of capitalism working exactly as it should?
yes, When the reason they are leaving is cause we're slapping busineses/companies with tons of taxes and laws to prevent thier growth. We are trying to get drugs cheaper and cheaper, so we can hand them out to everyone, creating a perfect world but because we have a left wing thinking more with heart than brain we see what happens.. bye bye
hardly encouraging capitolism in the US, more like encouraging it to go elsewhere.
-- "of course thats just my opinion, I could be wrong." --Dennis Miller
Or B, the US worker keeps his job and is happy. Meanwhile, instead of having a job at below the ->US- minimum wage building cars, a man in the third world has to depend on his children and wife working or begging in order to avoid going hungry. His children don't recieve an education to speak of, let alone thinking of college. Without an education, his children will never be "middle class".
Fuck them. They're not Americans. The US worker is who I care about. Why should I care about some curry-stinking Indian in Bangalore when I have bills of my own?