Small Town USA Competing With India

William Hood writes "According to a news article at ABC, companies are sometimes opting to outsource to rural USA rather than foreign countries. Although it still achieves the same result of lowering the value of a job, I think the idea of moving to a larger house that costs less in a town with no traffic is a much better option than flying to Bangalore to train your replacement." From the article: "Sebeka is 14 miles from the closest traffic light, hours from the nearest Starbucks coffee shop and a far cry from the Chicago suburb he left. 'There is no traffic,' said technical consultant Clayton Seal, who also works in Sebeka. 'Anytime, day or night, you can cross Main Street -- almost don't have to look 'cause there's nobody there.' Seal also lost his job to outsourcing."

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From the blurb

[deepestblue]

... moving to a larger house that costs less in a town with no traffic is a much better option than flying to Bangalore to train your replacement ...

If moving to a smaller town is an option, why isn't moving to Bangalore? Oh, I know - "irreconcilable cultural differences". Somehow, when immigrants to the US encounter the same culture shock, it's all right because they're getting "a better life". Talk of being spoilt.

Disclaimer: I'm an alien in the US. From India, at that.

Can't happen

[ylikone]

That can't and won't happen (making it illegel to outsource). As long as north america has a strong capitalist force which everyone embraces, it will continue to be fine to outsource. What will happen is that eventually it will level out all around the world. The global economy will make everybody poor. Except the rich who run the corporations, they will get richer. The gap between rich and poor will widen significantly. What will happen then? Maybe a revolution.

Re:Outsourcing should be illegal.

[benjamindees]

How do you support our country if you're sending our jobs overseas?

Ding ding. Here's your wake up call. These companies are supporting the country by shipping jobs overseas to free up Americans to fight in foreign wars.

The US gov't won't outlaw outsourcing because it's by design. As outsourced techies are working at McDonalds, the people who should be working at McDonalds are being shot at in Iraq.

If everybody had jobs they could do right here, no one would voluntarily sign up to fight the Jews' wars for them. And the last time they tried to force people to fight a needless war, all hell broke loose.