Westerners Migrating to India for Jobs

shonagon53 writes "The BBC reports that quite a few young European tourists stick around in India to work for eSolutions companies who contract outsourced work from European companies. The salaries are mediocre, but you get free housing, great food, snacks à volonté and a free taxi ride to work each morning. Is this the first wave of the much anticipated reverse-migration which will be a hallmark of the 21st century?"

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Re:If it means...

[leereyno]

Forget about them being in touch with the average American, they aren't even in touch with objective reality!

Besides, these people aren't even liberals. They're mostly socialists with more than a few communists and other such paragons of wisdom and foresight thrown in. They started calling themselves "liberals" back when the word actually meant something good. Since they've run it into the ground they've slowly begun calling themselves "progressives" and other euphemisms. A genuine liberal is what would nowadays be called a libertarian, or at least someone who subscribed to the fundamental ideals of libertarianism. I make that distinction because the libertarian party is addled with some pretty wacked out BS itself, such as denying the very existence of a public good for example. I think that modern libertarianism is a response to modern "liberalism" that in some ways goes to far in the opposite extreme. The fundamental ideals upon which it is based are still sound however.

I think it would be wonderful if the "progressives" and "liberals" among us would emigrate to countries where their ideology has had free reign, like Cuba or Eastern Europe for example. Maybe, just maybe, they would wake up and smell the coffee. Some people need to be hit over the head with 2x4 by reality before they'll recognize it.

Unfortunately almost everyone who read that last paragraph is going to assume that by criticizing "liberalism" I'm silently endorsing "conservativism." The truth is that I've got almost as many problems with the right, particularly the religious right, as I do with the left. They are less offensive by comparison, but only by comparison.

My dream for America is that the "liberals" either wake up, or leave, and that libertarianism rises up as an effective foil against conservativism. In fact I'll even make a small ammount of room for the "liberals" since even a broken clock is right twice a day and it is possible that they might be right about something from time to time.

Mostly I just want a country where common sense and wisdom rule the day, not brain dead ideologies. Since that isn't possible because of the epidemic of stupidity that is part of the human condition, I'll settle for the gridlock that was built into the system by the founding fathers to ensure that those with an agenda get so tied up fighting those with other agendas that their collective ability to cause problems for the rest of us is minimized.

But you know what, despite all the BS that flies nowadays, this is still the best country on the face of the earth and arguably the best that's ever been.

Lee