Slashdot Mirror
Intel Chief: Don't Call Us Benedict Arnold CEOs
theodp writes "In a USA Today interview, Intel CEO Craig Barrett pooh-poohs arguments against outsourcing, explaining 'We do not send our basketball teams to compete against the rest of the world, saying the other teams have to play slower because our folks aren't fit enough to run as fast.' He is also fed up with being called a Benedict Arnold CEO (perhaps he'd prefer Unemployed Computer Scientist). Barrett pegs K-12 math and science education as the biggest threat to U.S. employment, but when pressed about U.S. kids who do well in both, attend excellent universities, but have no guarantees of good jobs when they graduate, Barrett remarks 'I don't have a solution to that one.'"
You fucking overbearing asshole americans, you're making being an american very hard for me. Maybe you should take half a second to read the man's words. Why can't you understand that it is now a global economy, if american companies were to spend too much money on paying our fat lazy assholes (I'm sorry but anyone who works on a computer has a fucking soft life.) to be less productive we would eventualy fall by the wayside.
What we need is to be competitive. There is a glut of software engineers. Too many engineers not enough jobs. This is true anywhere, pickle farming, douche bag manufactury, or chiefs. You complain that the reason the jobs have gone away is some ceo meeting his bottom line. It is, he's making it and you don't cut the mustard. When you were in college you had the opportunity to get any education, and you picked the profession with too many pasty little whiners.
Try beating your life out of a patch of dirt, then bitch to me from ivory keyboards.
Life is competition. Do not be a sore loser. Dust yourself off, get back out there.
p.s. of course it would make the shareholders of intel happy, that's why the bought the stock you fucking nerd.
These CEOs are traitors - they are betrying their country and their people for money.
Hmm, the CEOs in the (semi) capitalist country are maximixing profits for their shareholders. Exactly what country and people are being betrayed here? Either the shareholders (OWNERS) of the company are hurt or the workers. Why is the workers group more important than the owners group? Who will own a company whose interests are subjugated to the workers? Please see stunning triumphs of socialism such as the former Soviet Union.
Oh no! A company is moving from a downtown highrise to a lower rent building in the burbs!
Oh no! A company is moving from the burbs to a rural part of the state!
Oh no! A company is moving from a rural part of this state to another state!
Oh no! A company is moving from this country to another country!
Which is these are OK and which is too much? So where is the line and why not the one before? If any one of them is OK then they should ALL be OK. Why should a company be forced to stay put forever in the same place?
...and it seems harsh to pick on Benedict Arnold in particular...
Look, moron. Whether it's right or wrong the phrase "Benedict Arnold" became synonymous with "traitor" long ago, and has been used as such in American English for two hundred years. It is a language construct; a phrase; and idiom. No one is "picking on" Benedict Arnold any more than they are "picking on" Newcastle when someone says, "Isn't that like bringing coals to Newcastle?"
These companies are Benedict Arnolds (and you're a Bozo).
Proverbs 21:19
Yeah, yeah. I'm pretty tired of hearing this argument about how Indian's are kicking American butt because you're all so good.
Indian has not innovated anything in hundreds or thousands of years. Indians had to come to the US become innovators. Every piece of technology you're using was invented and developed in the West (in some cases by Indian's living here). From the base process of semicondustors to the routers you use for your Internet connection.
Lets look at publications: even the excellent schools like the Indian Institute of Technology do not have the output of Stanford, MIT Carniegie Mellon and the University of California. So why is this?
Next time you get on your high horse about how great India is think about the cast system. The fact that even today some widows in India still feel that they have to burn themselve to death. Or how about the religious riots? Or the fact that the US only just pulled back India and Pakistan from the brink of nuclear war.
The only reason that Indian software engineers can compete with software engineers in the United States is that the Indian cost of living is a tiny fraction of that in California and Indian software engineers are cheap labor. We're no smarter than you are, nor are you any smarter than we are. There are excellent people in both countries. But Indians are cheap and accessible because of the Internet that has been provided by the West.
And then there is agriculture. Even without the massive farm price supports India's agriculture could not compete with the US which uses massive amounts of automation and has access to capital that India does not. This allows the US to produce a vast qunatity of agricultural products with only a small fraction of its population.