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Chicago School Official: US IT Jobs Offshored Because 'We Weren't Making Our Own' Coders
theodp writes: In a slick new video, segments of which were apparently filmed looking out from Google's Chicago headquarters giving it a nice high-tech vibe, Chicago Public Schools' CS4ALL staffers not-too-surprisingly argue that creating technology is "a power that everyone needs to have."
In the video, the Director of Computer Science and IT Education for the nation's third largest school district offers a take on why U.S. IT jobs were offshored that jibes nicely with the city's new computer science high school graduation requirement. From the transcript: "People still talk about it's all offshored, it's all in India and you know, there are some things that are there but they don't even realize some of the reasons that they went there in the first place is because we weren't making our own."
In the video, the Director of Computer Science and IT Education for the nation's third largest school district offers a take on why U.S. IT jobs were offshored that jibes nicely with the city's new computer science high school graduation requirement. From the transcript: "People still talk about it's all offshored, it's all in India and you know, there are some things that are there but they don't even realize some of the reasons that they went there in the first place is because we weren't making our own."
LOL... they're talking about Chicago. Most students there finish up their high school diploma in prison. Meanwhile, hardworking Indians are getting their EE degrees at IIT instead of doing crack and banging hoes all day. That's why we have offshoring.
Ha ha ha... It was USA and other rich people countries that pushed the poor countries to open up their economies in name of Globalization, with sole purpose of exploiting the cheap resources (natural as well as human).
Why is the west crying now? Even you might have been happy with the fact that your services were cheaper and more abundant than before.
The sole beneficiaries in this game are the top 1% and the corporations.