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IT Students Contract Out Coursework To India
An anonymous reader writes "Students studying computing in the UK and US are outsourcing their university coursework to graduates in India and Romania. Work is being contracted out for as little as £5 on contract coding websites usually used by businesses. Students are outsourcing everything from simple coursework to full blown final year dissertations. It's causing a major headache for lecturers who say it is almost impossible to detect." The irony, of course, is that if they actually get jobs in the sector, this will be how they actually work anyway.
India and China are ruining first world countries.
Not really. I got the joke. Just making sure nobody thinks it's bad grammar.
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"Let me guess, you've never really been in poverty."
Bad guess.
"If you follow your logic forcing employers to minimum safety standards also makes it more profitable to set up somewhere without such standards."
"Outsourcing in general is not caused by the minimum wage."
You're going to have to provide some evidence to support this. If the whole purpose of business is to make money, and companies can make more money by paying less to workers, then it is obvious that the minimum wage is going to drive jobs away.
If it is simply that you're afraid of people in the US being paid pennies an hour, don't be. If the minimum wage were removed, people in the US who suddenly make pennies an hour still need food/shelter to survive, and the producers of that food and shelter will want their business, and so will lower costs to get that business - luckily for them they are able to lower those costs, because now they don't have to pay their labor minimum wage. So the people wanting food/shelter and the people producing food/shelter are both making less money. As for the unemployed - suddenly there are a lot more job opportunities. More work is done in the US, and the benefits of that work stay in the US.
Best of all, less government manipulation of the economy.
"Why do you think minimum wage laws and unions were formed in the first place?"
Unions were formed in the first place to deny the right to get a job to those not in the unions. Since those in strong unions could not be fired that easily, the minimum wage laws worked fine for them, but not for those in weaker unions or not union members. This happened the same in Europe and US.