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."

Comments

Cost of Reproduction

[Baldrson]

This change is profound.

People talk about "the cost of living" but what they don't talk about is "the cost of reproduction". Some people think this difference is subtle but really it is enormous.

Why do you think all the open-borders, guest-worker and outsourcing advocates continually talk about the "greying of America"?

It's because there has been a demographic collapse caused by movement to the cities. The early boomers surfed the wave of real estate and lots of cheap younger labor from their younger cohort but the mid to late boomers were hit by a crushing confluence of circumstances that effectively sterilized them. No profession was hit harder by this de facto sterilization than programmers who worked in male-saturated ghettos.

The "leaders" responsible for cramming the boomers into the sterilizing cities, frequently touting the value of "Zero Population Growth" and the "ecological footprint of US citizens" are the same "leaders" who opened the borders and threw middle-aged programmers out on the street to find jobs competing with illegal Mexican laborers in Home Depot and Walmart.