We have a job opening here. I posted it here and on craig's list. I got an application from an Indian programmer today wanting to work from India for 1800 a month.

Indians are combing US job boards obviously looking for US jobs.

Now exactly what about that is NOT competition?

noteworthy wrote:
] Times readers respond (rather quite predictibly) to Daniel
] Drezner's recent op-ed on outsourcing.
]
] These people are in such denial!
]
] The gang's all here, as if on public display. You have the
] lame, out-of-work ex-programmer who spent money on a "master's
] degree" in IT. (Yeah, that's right.) You have the Labor
] economist, the flag-waving DIYers, and the counter-corporeals.
] All that's missing is the foreign commentator who decries the
] new social divisions brought about by the influx of Western
] work to the developing country.

skullaria wrote:
] Indians are combing US job boards obviously looking for US jobs.
]
] Now exactly what about that is NOT competition?

Daniel Drezner has his points. He has a blog. Direct questions to him at his blog.

My point is not that outsourcing does not exist nor that it has a negligible effect on American lives. It does exist and its effects are real and significant, both in the US and around the world.

My point is that advocating reactionary strategies and policies is doomed to failure, especially in the long run if not even in the short run. In attempting to shield the US, you are not propping it up. You are drowning it. For every moment the US delays, hoping for a political bail-out that allows it to reject change and maintain the statuo quo, the US stands idly by while the other 95% of the world scrambles to overtake them. A growing number of nations are already ahead of the US in education, and now they're extending their lead.

The world is a tough place. Go read your Darwin. Cowboy up!

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

No one said anything about a job.