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IBM Tries To Patent Offshoring
Ian Lamont writes "IBM has filed a patent application that covers offshoring employees. Application 20090083107, dated March 26, 2009, is a 'method and system for strategic global resource sourcing.' Figure 2 gives a pretty good idea of what's involved — it shows boxes labelled 'Engineer,' 'HR,' and 'Programmer' with crossing arrows pointing to cylinders labelled 'India,' 'China,' and 'Hungary.' The article speculates that IBM may apply the methodology to its own staff — it reportedly plans to lay off thousands of employees and has even started a program to have IBM workers transfer to other countries at local wages."
With America turning to shit - you'd think that American citizens would dive at this opportunity:
"has even started a program to have IBM workers transfer to other countries at local wages."
The only downside, those of us living outside the US would have to put up with MORE americans and their whiny naisly voice.
Because clearly, the world will only be right and pure if other people are unemployed while we are overpaid, as opposed to everyone earning a modest wage. Is global wage equalization too much for you? That means you're a spoiled, anti-competitive brat.
So, encouraging competition in the labor market by reducing trade barriers and wage restrictions is now being a communist?
I don't want to redistribute anything. I just want everyone to be able to compete for work on equal terms. When that happens, wages in more developed countries will fall while wages in less developed countries will rise, until they equalize.
Wage restrictions and immigration controls have nothing to do with social darwinism. In fact, they impede it, by ensuring that you get overpaid for your work when someone else would gladly do it for less. You're the less efficient, wasteful being that needs to be stamped out of existence, not them.
I'm not a socialist, you're just a bad capitalist. You're such a bad capitalist that when I suggest relaxing labor restrictions, you call me a communist. Way to make yourself look like a total idiot.