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Subject:Re: Offshoring: San Jose Mercury News article From:k k <turnleftatnowhere -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:02:46 -0800 (PST)
I really have to wonder how tightly you would cling to
your claim that offshoring is *good* for us if your
job was taken from you and moved to Bangalore.
>
> "Outsourcing" is *good* news for our economy. It
> means that our labor
> resources are too *valuable* to be used on that kind
> of work and can be
> redirected to more *productive* uses. That's called
> progress. It's what
> makes us all richer in the long run.
>
Corporate newspeak at its finest. Offshoring makes us
richer. So that makes it all better. It's OK for
Americans to lose their houses and go two years and
more without work because that somehow makes us
richer. I guess according to you, those people should
feel OK because this process is somehow making them
richer. I'll be hanged if I can figure how I'm richer
because my neighbors who used to work at Dell are now
working at Burger King. I'll be hanged if I can figure
out how they're richer. But then I'm not an investor.
I guess maybe you own a bunch of stock in companies
that are offshoring a lot?
"That kind of work"? So according to you, American
software engineers and tech writers and managers are
"too valuable" to waste their time doing the jobs they
used to have. What is a more valuable use of their
time? And how are the people who lose their jobs to
offshoring going to get into more "productive" uses
when American companies won't hire them because it's
cheaper to go offshore?
> Yes, that kind of progress hurts certain "victims"
> in the short run. Just as
> it did the buggy-whip makers, auto-body welders, and
> switchboard operators.
> Should their *temporary* discomfort be used as an
> excuse to keep us all
> poorer?
>
Your examples are spurious rot because those people
were displaced by economic changes that CREATED
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