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Study Claims Offshoring Doesn't Cost US Jobs
SwashbucklingCowboy writes "Infoworld has an article up about a survey by the Software & Information Industry Association claiming that offshoring doesn't cost American jobs. The article quotes the executive director of the SIIA as saying, '[Offshoring] was used almost entirely as a form of expansion, not as a replacement.' Well, if a job is created elsewhere that could have been created in the US, isn't that a job lost?"
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Everyone knows that the only jobs that count are the jobs in the United States. The rest of the folks in the world don't need jobs, they just need government cheese.
Sure, we lose a 40 hour/week programmer position to [india|china|vietnam|swaziland], but we generate 40 hours/week worth of bugfixing and project management work, so it's really a wash.
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The data compiled for this study was composed in Bangalore India.
Well, that's important. Americans are good at lesser skills.
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"Well, if a job is created elsewhere that could have been created in the US, isn't that a job lost?"
No... No: This one goes up to eleven.
I for one welcome our new Indian Tech Support Overlords.
Did someone say cake?
Europe isn't so hot now.
High unemployment, higher taxes and social programs pushing their governments into massive debt.
I have worked in IT for 27 years, sys admin and software developer, and I'm looking to get out.
Get a degree in law. In 15 years all Americans will make their living by suing one another.
people who can be paid less because the cost of living is less.
All of that and the added bonus of the security of being inside the greatest country on the planet.
I'm not sure whether to fucking laugh or cry.
Most likely the former, this is possibly the funniest comment I've seen all week.