I'm all for competition and everyone getting paid for their sacrifices and risks, but the only one winning with foreign outsourcing and h1b visa's are a small percentage of executives and large corp. owners.
This is untrue. The Indians - ordinary Indian sw engineers and IT workers - also benefit from US jobs shipped to India.
And why not? Isn't it kind of racist or jingoistic to think US sw engineers have a special right to those jobs just because we're Americans? This is why so many people hate Americans - because we think we somehow "deserve" our priveleged lifestyle. There are plenty of Indians who can program C++ or Java for $10K just as well as an American can for $80K.
Also, India is a poor country - if an Indian loses his job he could literally starve. Americans don't starve to death, they just get their SUV's repo'd and end up getting jobs at Walmart. The average Walmart worker is still better off than the average Indian, so it's hard to argue that Americans have some kind of higher moral right to those jobs than Indians.
Americans talk about jobs going to India and China like there's some huge moral injustice going on. We talk about Indians and Chinese "taking our jobs away". But if we prevent it then aren't we taking their jobs away? Why does an $80K American sw engineer deserve that job more than a $10K Indian sw engineer?
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This is untrue. The Indians - ordinary Indian sw engineers and IT workers - also benefit from US jobs shipped to India.
And why not? Isn't it kind of racist or jingoistic to think US sw engineers have a special right to those jobs just because we're Americans? This is why so many people hate Americans - because we think we somehow "deserve" our priveleged lifestyle. There are plenty of Indians who can program C++ or Java for $10K just as well as an American can for $80K.
Also, India is a poor country - if an Indian loses his job he could literally starve. Americans don't starve to death, they just get their SUV's repo'd and end up getting jobs at Walmart. The average Walmart worker is still better off than the average Indian, so it's hard to argue that Americans have some kind of higher moral right to those jobs than Indians.
Americans talk about jobs going to India and China like there's some huge moral injustice going on. We talk about Indians and Chinese "taking our jobs away". But if we prevent it then aren't we taking their jobs away? Why does an $80K American sw engineer deserve that job more than a $10K Indian sw engineer?