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IBM Seeks US Patents For Offshoring US Jobs
theodp writes "IBM and other corporations are seeking patents for inventions covering the offshoring of US jobs. The USPTO is considering IBM's patent application for Outsourcing of Services, a 'method for identifying human-resource work content to outsource offshore of an organization' to 'countries where cheaper labor prices and/or cheaper materials are available.' Then there's Big Blue's Electronic Marketplace for Identifying, Assessing, Reserving and Engaging Knowledge-Workers for an Assignment Using Trade-Off Analysis, which provides a handy-dandy IBM calculator that drives home the point that you'll pay less for IGS India workers, whether onshore or offshore. And with its System and Method of Using Speech Recognition at Call Centers to Improve Their Efficiency and Customer Satisfaction, IBM describes how to operate in 'low cost foreign countries' with 'support people not having good English language skills, or having an accent that makes it difficult to understand them' by exploiting technology developed for students who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as other accent reduction techniques."
See, now we see what IBM is really all about, using free software to make it easier to throw more people out of work in the states. At least with Microsoft, there's developers actually working in the USA....
This is my sig.
The U.S. is a country where the majority of the wealth is held by a few. It always has been, like every other nation-state before it and since. There are more people than there are resources.
A global "minimum wage" would work out to be a tiny fraction of the current U.S. minimum wage. The global health care standards and all of the other nonsense you whine about would be nonexistent, because they are not affordable across the entire population of the planet. It would be the "race to the bottom" you opine about constantly.
Your problem, in essence, is that you expect other countries to adopt a standard of living congruent to that of the United States. That is not sustainable for them. They cannot afford it, you see, and if they could they would be doing so already.
You could kill off everyone in the United States that holds more than a million dollars in assets, even seizing them, and improve absolutely nothing.
> That's why, if necessary, I will fight. Hopefully, my vote and my words can prevent such from becoming necessary.
You're a fat Internet tough guy. You're too much of a listless wanker to "fight." You'll just continue posting violent diatribes to the Internet, espousing your own ignorance of elementary subjects.
I don't care what you do, tubby. So if you go out and kill some unsuspecting person that just happened to be more successful than you (i.e. went to a university), I won't be impressed. No doubt someone in Bumfuck, Ohio will be forced to listen to your insipid babble, in that mildly-retarded Midland drawl the inhabitants of Ohio speak with, as they jiggle your fat ass into the back of the police car, but none of the rest of the world will notice.
However the odds are that like every other Internet tough guy you'll just continue to posture before people that are better-educated than you, until someone reports the twenty or thirty TOS violations (threatening people with violence, for example) you have accumulated to your service provider, and then you'll be posting your angry rants from dial-up. After the first visit from law enforcement, you'll start a newsletter or whatever it is that idiots with stupid views do when they overstay their welcome.