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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. Commence Slashbotting by CHaN_316 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Queue the phase 1, phase 2, phase 3 profit jokes...

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  2. FP? by sabat · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post. Not a logical argument, unless you're trying to say that outsourcing will create more outsourcing.

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  3. Nuh uh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ummm, did you follow that?

    heh...nope.

  4. Nope... "Outsourcing your own job" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Outsourcing your own job" was the first post. Unfortunately didn't contain a link to the article... Presumably because they were so busy trying to be the first post?

  5. Confucious say... by Abraxis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...One bird in hand is worth two in bush.

  6. Typical woman.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Can't be trusted to manage money.

    This is the same backasswards logic they use to spend spend spend.

  7. Agree me. by Barryke · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Me agrees! Greets from Abû

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  8. Re:Outsourcing your own job. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    wOOt

  9. Re:It IS good for us. by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually, sorry, China surpasses us there too- that's why we're disabling our ICBMs to build a missile shield- because their missiles are more accurate than ours.

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  10. Re:It IS good for us. by crotherm · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    In case the last 50 years has not taught you anything, it seems that none of the major powers are willing to blow up the world. It is this thing called Mutually Assured Destruction. Also, since the rest of the world looks down upon countries spreading nukes, I don't think China will be selling nukes or nuke capable missle technology any time soon.

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  11. Re:Outsourcing is good for you. by Delphiki · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Do you have anything more to add to the discussion than "Nuh uh"?

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