RE: India - Wave of the Future?

["Mark Baker" <mbaker -at- ca -dot- stilo -dot- com>]

Anameier, Christine wrote

> The laid-off US tech workers -- whose skills are not obsolete, I might
> add; just more expensive -- are winding up in an increasingly large pool
> of jobless people with an increasingly smaller number of jobs available.
> ... The world won't be better
> for them if there's less poverty on another continent.

Actually, they might. The fact of the matter is that a product or service
that is more expensive than a viable alternative **is** obsolete. Expensive
is one aspect of obsolete. And if they were artificially shielded from the
offshore competition by a company that declines to seek the lowest cost
suppliers, this will only delay their unemployment, because the company will
eventually lose orders and then downsize or go out of business, throwing
even more people out of work. Meanwhile, less poverty on another continent
means less war, less terrorism, wider markets, and a better overall economic
climate in which to seek a new occupation.

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