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theodp writes "Addressing 5,000 developers in Bangalore, Bill Gates announced the Code4Bill contest, a nationwide talent hunt which will begin in January and last eight months. Twenty finalists will receive internships with Microsoft India before one Superhero is selected to join Mr. Gates's own team."
When did you guys lose your "Give me your poor, tired and huddled masses ...' and 'if you work you can make it big' attitudes and get this entitlement attitude?
Back then, companies couldn't ship jobs to some backwater where the cost of living was cheaper while enjoying the comforts of the first world.
Now that you guys are on top, you'd like to keep a third of humanity down forever?
Why don't you go build your own economy instead of being the bottom ranks of some other country's corporation? Israel did it in about 60 years, why can't you?
And did you even consider in your pompousness that some of the software that MS does might be for the local market?
Yep. It doesn't take tens of thousands of developers to localize software.
Come to think of it there are/were many democracies doing quite well until some pompous pricks decided that they were not right-wing enough. Hmm, can you name the pricks?
Yeah, blame us because the CIA likes to topple hostile democracies and set up friendly dictatorships, because I personally oversaw those ops.
And for those who think we have no home-grown tech companies, wait and watch.
I don't care about your local industry, at least that's not my concern. Good luck and all that. My problem is that, by cutting costs at all costs, the local corps here seem to want to sabotage the US technology career - who's going to study CS if there aren't any jobs, or if they pay shit wages? Who's going to hire fresh grads if MS shifts most of its hiring to India? Yeah, we've got startups like crazy, but what happens when the business plan requires shifting all development to India after 5 years? Yeah, we cost more (we have higher rents), but we feed money back into the economy.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
you shouldn't try to talk about economics when there are adults who might be listening.
I know as much or more about economics as the average senator. Not saying much, I know.
Must be very enterprising of Israel to be able to build an economy with only 134,791,507,200 dollars of someone else's money in their pockets.
$134B (is that 2005 dollars?) over 60 years? That doesn't even pay for the military (which they wouldn't need if the arabs around them weren't trying to annihilate them). Israel has a first world economy and a decent standard of living. Not bad for living in the damn desert.
As to your other points, why should anyone else care? Perhaps you can tell me about your years activism in the face of loss of manufacturing jobs? Go ahead.
You should care because it will screw a lot of smart workers who want to work, are willing to retrain, and are having their livelihood devalued through legislation (H1-B caps combined with lax enforcement). A lot of manufacturing workers are poorly educated, expect to do the same damn thing for the same money, and had years of warning, by the way.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"