From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 22:34:22 MDT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Thayer [mailto:d_l_thayer@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 11 June 2003 1:15 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Re: [XTropes] RE: Was Re: PHYSICS: force fields (RANT)
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> On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 11:55:09AM +0930, Emlyn O'regan wrote:
> > Anyway, what's wrong with skilled Indians having jobs? Who
> is to say they
> > deserve them less (if that matters) than USians?
>
> Because those Indians are making 1/10th what a 'USian' would
> make for the
> same work?
Relative to their economy, that's a lot of money. And if it means cheaper
software, then the overall benefit to the world is very high.
Not *all* the work is going off-shore, however. Just some of it, which suits
that model (and maybe some more, which doesn't, but that must be a passing
and rather expensive fad).
> Besides, those Indians have even fewer protections than
> American workers, their jobs will soon move to even poorer
> countries.
It's not like this has happened overnight, and it hasn't just fallen on them
out of the sky. The Indians (and whatever Western interest have been
involved) must have busted their collective arses to get high tech industry
going in their country.
> Eventually all computer programming would be done by crippled orphans
> working for a daily bowl of gruel.
>
> ----
> Doug
Assuming that you can set up world class technical universities in third
world rubbish dumps, you may be correct.
It's surprised me how the normally very free-market oriented tech workers
have become raving protectionists as this storm of cheap overseas
competitors, gathering for maybe 10 years now, has finally broken. Well,
hello real world.
Emlyn
(also trying to weather the storm)
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