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Why Your Job Isn't Moving to Bangalore
by Jeremy at 9:57 am EST, Feb 15, 2004 |
In objecting to moving service jobs overseas, Senator Kerry is wrong on two counts. First, his economics is faulty. Second, Mr. Kerry is making a political error. The fact is, when jobs disappear in America it is usually because technical change has destroyed them, not because they have gone anywhere. In the end, Americans' increasing dependence on an ever-widening array of technology will create a flood of high-paying jobs requiring hands-on technicians, not disembodied voices from the other side of the world. Blame iPod, not India. Globalization needs an Al Sharpton. |
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RE: Why Your Job Isn't Moving to Bangalore
by Decius at 12:46 pm EST, Feb 15, 2004 |
Jeremy wrote:
] In objecting to moving service jobs overseas, Senator Kerry
] is wrong on two counts. First, his economics is faulty.
] Second, Mr. Kerry is making a political error.
] This article argues its position by side stepping the core issue. There is a very vast grey area between people that do "Research" and people that do rote, pre-defined tasks. Within that realm is most of the middle class in this country, and most of the new outsourcing that has most people concerned. By breaking the question up into those two categories the author manages to avoid addressing the core concern by not making it an element of his model. I would feel much better about the changes that we're facing if the people arguing in favor of them could do so without slight of hand. U: Maybe what he means to say is that there is rote and there is everything else and none of the everything else is really being outsourced. If that is the case I must ask, where the hell has this guy been for the past 12 months and why is the NYT offering him a podium when he has no idea what is going on and what this conversation is about. There are companies all over the US who are outsourcing muscle. If you're not aware of it you're not informed enough to be involved in the dialog. |
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