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Outsourcing is Good for You
gManZboy writes "Catherine Mann, from the Institute for International Economics, has a look at What Global Outsourcing Means for U.S. IT Workers up over at Queue. She's got an interesting argument: outsourcing means cheaper IT products, meaning businesses will buy more, meaning more products to make & manage = net gain of IT jobs in the US. Ummm, did you follow that?"
On top of that, you can outsource your own job, take up another one, and outsource it too. Basically you can be making way more than you currently are. I think there was a /. story on this a while back.
Should have read:
a net gain of _outsourced_ jobs in the US
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Oh, the United States of India...
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"we live in a post-ideological world..." - Billy Bragg.
Thanks to outsourcing, everything I buy at WalMart with my unemployment check is cheaper!
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I outsouced my /. reading to India, i pay 4 dollars a day. They even make quality posts about random topics on it.
Sounds like you discovered the secret of multi-level marketing. Sssh.. before someone patents your idea.
"dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope"
Become a security guard for rich people.
Build trust over a decade or so.
When the upcoming collapse is in full swing, abuse that trust by handing the boss over to the tar-n-feathers brigade.
Ya gotta think long term.
Writers imply. Readers infer.
Maybe we can start outsourcing economists, too.
-- I Am Not A Terrorist.
I guess there's none of them pesky thermodynamics laws in the world of economics huh?
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This has to be the first ever economic theory equivalent of the Chewbacca Defense.
Remember the following 5 slashdot offshoring axioms:
Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination.
Coding is manual labor? Please explain...
Well, you see, to use your keyboard, you place the right hand on the keyboard, and you place the left hand on the keyboard. Then, using the little keys on the keyboard (which have been conveniently coded) you code. With your hands.
Next time we'll discuss the mouse.
"Piter, too, is dead."
As the joke goes...
If you lined up the world's economists in a line, they wouldn't reach a conslusion.
Catherine Mann, from the Institute for International Economics, has a look at What Global Outsourcing Means for U.S. IT Workers up over at Queue. She's got an interesting argument: outsourcing means cheaper IT products, meaning businesses will buy more, meaning more products to make & manage = net gain of IT jobs in the US.
I say outsource her job, then see what she has to say about it.