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An Independent Study on Offshoring IT?
vsprintf writes "What are the real effects of offshoring on the U.S. technology sector? Pick your economist on the subject. The Bush administration's Gregory Mankiw says it's all good, and exporting jobs is just a new way to do trade. In Congressional testimony, Ralph Gomory says a little bit is okay, but too much is bad, while Herman Daly says it's just plain bad. The ITAA's paid mouthpiece, Harris Miller, says it must be good because IT workers in India wear Nike tennis shoes. At last, it appears the IEEE-USA has persuaded Congress to pay for an independent study to determine how offshoring really affects U.S. IT."
It also greatly befenits us, the programmers in these countries. I make 1000USD monthly by working part-time and when I finish the university I will probably get 5000USD+. All these in a situations where the minimum wage in our country is 75 USD and the average is 150 USD.
An other idea would be (this just a personal opinion): most probably the lowest quality (e.g. untalented) workers will be fired first, so what we see is a bunch of people who demand money for their very few merits.
For an economically-informed discussion of outsouring, see this article by Daniel Drezner.
Speaking as a non-American, it seems to me that the problem is not outsourcing (as there seems to be more or less a general agreement that it makes the US as a whole wealthier), but an improper distribution of wealth. Perhaps you should consult your neighbours up north on how they've kept the playing field a bit more level.
Nonsense... without offshoring there never would have been a computer revolution in the first place. To think there would've is completely ignorant. Where do you think this computer you're using was made?
PC's didn't become mass-consumables until they started being largely made overseas (except for the processors). There would have been much fewer computer programming jobs without offshoring.
The economic arguments for free trade are sound and they are pretty much laws at this point. When an industry is offshored, it's cost to consumers is generally lowered. Not only that but that creates a whole new class of middle-class consumers.
In the end, it is my belief that offshoring will at some point generate a whole new slew of new computer jobs, but they just may not be the kind we had before.
Name one fucked up country of 100 years ago that is not a fucked up country today...
My own country, Sweden, devastatingly poor back then (even poorer if you go slightly further back in time), very prosperous today.
All countries have had the problems described in post 10167613, if you just go back two or three hundred years. They have been solved, they can be solved. It's a matter of development.
Terrorists can't threaten a country's freedom and democracy. Only lawmakers and voters can do that.
You have become conditioned by the "Independent Studies" conducted by Microsoft. As Confucious say," Man who jump to conclusion often end up at bottom of cliff."
The GAO (General Accounting Office) conducts nothing BUT independent surveys...anytime they audit or report. And NOBODY likes their results, because it generally concludes contradictory to all political benefit. So, both sides hate them.
If you want a more true picture of anything, just get the GAO to Audit/Study it. They seemingly execute independent of the President and Congress, even though operating under auspices of Congress.
That would be a kick, have the GAO audit/report on MS and monopoly...wow.