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Outsourcing is Good for You

Posted by michael on from the suck-it-up dept.

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?"

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  1. Outsourcing your own job. by dazilla · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Outsourcing your own job. by LiquidMind · · Score: 5, Funny

      this reminds me of a lil joke i heard some years ago (so the wording might be a bit off)....

      "I just hired a person that takes care of all my worries for me"
      "that's great. how much does he charge?"
      "$200 the hour"
      "how are you gonna afford that?"
      "i have no idea. let him worry about that"

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  2. Corrected version by linuxwrangler · · Score: 4, Funny

    Should have read:
    a net gain of _outsourced_ jobs in the US

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  3. it sure is by ch-chuck · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thanks to outsourcing, everything I buy at WalMart with my unemployment check is cheaper!

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  4. it really works by zippo01 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I outsouced my /. reading to India, i pay 4 dollars a day. They even make quality posts about random topics on it.

  5. So you actually *made* money in Amway? by dogfart · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds like you discovered the secret of multi-level marketing. Sssh.. before someone patents your idea.

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  6. Protect yourself by becoming useful by Inthewire · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  7. Re:Corrected version by ilsa · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe we can start outsourcing economists, too.

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  8. Chewbacca Economic Theory by MooseByte · · Score: 5, Funny

    This has to be the first ever economic theory equivalent of the Chewbacca Defense.

    • Chewbacca supposedly lives on the planet Endor. Now why would an 8-foot tall wookie live on a planet with a bunch of 3-foot tall Ewoks? Why, I tell you why: because it doesn't make sense.
    • Claiming that outsourcing IT jobs from a country will increase IT employment in that same country doesn't make sense.
    • None of this makes any sense.
    • If it doesn't make sense, there will be more jobs for American IT workers.
  9. Re:Perpetual Employment! by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course not. You can also give tax breaks to rich people, and it helps you and I because they have more money to spend on hiring us to scrub their mansion floors with toothbrushes!

  10. Shh! by nwbvt · · Score: 3, Funny
    Don't apply reason or actual economics to the outsourcing debate on slashdot! You will be modded down -1 Troll!

    Remember the following 5 slashdot offshoring axioms:

    • Indians, Chinese, Japanese, and anyone else who may take a US job are the spawn of Satan
    • Americans have an inalienable right to overpaid jobs
    • Anything under 100% employment represents a failure of the US economy
    • Bush is responsible for every job that leaves the US
    • John Kerry will fly in and save the world from the evil "Benedict Arnold CEOs"
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  11. What about this... by Anonymous+Writer · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.