That's not the point. In pure theory protectionism is a bad thing but unrestrained globalism thrashes the world's workforce. Right now the driving force is cheapness of goods or services abroad. Unlike the trends of the manufacturing past the impact today is across the board. We're exporting much more than programming jobs. We're sending accounting work, financial analysis and any other knowledge related tasks that can be remoted vialthe net. India and China are growing at everyone elses expense. When will they begin creating a demand for these services within thier own economies? During the Y2K days I worked with teams of Indoans. I would joke about how the millenium would bring disaster for thier countries because they were all over here fixing our systems. They would turn and laugh at me because "over there everything is done on paper!". Funny indeed. I can't help but feel that thier strategy is to continue to be a global parasite that takes from the worlds markets instead of contributing. How can a U.S developer paid $60K compete with an Indian at $6K or a Chinese developer at half that? Why will our universities bother to teach skills that are no longer needed in our domestic marketplace? What kind of picture does that paint for our immediate future and that of generations to come. If the goal is to raise all boats let's not loose site of our domestic fleet.
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Shut up coward. Yelling racist is the easy way out.
That's not the point. In pure theory protectionism is a bad thing but unrestrained globalism thrashes the world's workforce. Right now the driving force is cheapness of goods or services abroad. Unlike the trends of the manufacturing past the impact today is across the board. We're exporting much more than programming jobs. We're sending accounting work, financial analysis and any other knowledge related tasks that can be remoted vialthe net. India and China are growing at everyone elses expense. When will they begin creating a demand for these services within thier own economies? During the Y2K days I worked with teams of Indoans. I would joke about how the millenium would bring disaster for thier countries because they were all over here fixing our systems. They would turn and laugh at me because "over there everything is done on paper!". Funny indeed. I can't help but feel that thier strategy is to continue to be a global parasite that takes from the worlds markets instead of contributing. How can a U.S developer paid $60K compete with an Indian at $6K or a Chinese developer at half that? Why will our universities bother to teach skills that are no longer needed in our domestic marketplace? What kind of picture does that paint for our immediate future and that of generations to come. If the goal is to raise all boats let's not loose site of our domestic fleet.