Look at the economics, Bill. It costs Indians $0.55 to eat lunch in their canteen. How much does it cost us? Easily 10 times that. I'm all for globalization if everyone is on an equal footing, but the Indians have a severe advantage, in that they have a cost of living that's less than 1/10th of our's. You won't find me calling foul to Canadian or even most European out-sourcing, but India just isn't on the same level-- we can't compete. By outsourcing, we're simply exporting our prosperity.
Maybe you're OK with that Bill, because you don't have too many years left in the working world, but others have numerous decades before retirement. The idea of America simply inventing and everyone else just sitting back and waiting for that is total BS-- there's absolutely NO reason that the USA will be the source for all good ideas-- just the idea is extremely arrogant and blind to reality.
--
Derek
> I never said I want anyone to lose their job. I am saying
> that if such a
> terrible thing should happen, a little imagination can go a long way,
> because there really are a lot of things that need doing.
>
> This is part of a larger set of feelings that being protectionist and
> aggressive are NOT good ideas. We should be embracing the
> world and all
> the challenges it offers - there are no shortages. So what if
> companies
> outsource some stuff when there are tons of other projects
> that need to
> be done here as well as abroad? Can't you look around and see
> something
> that needs to be done?
>
> A lot of people, myself included, are fearful and paranoid about what
> can happen in a world gone mad (war). We - nobody - can win a
> war in the
> nuclear age, so we must move to make it obsolete. We can only do that
> with a cooperative world, and our behavior has been decidedly against
> that grain.
>
>
> Bill
>
>
> >
> >
> > Some good news for some people in the US who do NOT want
> > to lose their jobs(i.e. not Bill Arnold):
> >
> > http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/040130/15/3hnrw.html
> >
> >
> > --
> > Derek
> >
>
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