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They didn't get these jobs through competition, they got them because they prostituted their skills for low wages to greedy American corporations.

That's an unfair statement. The wages these Indian employees get are actually quite high for the Indian labor market. That's why you have Indian MBA's clamoring for telemarketer positions with U.S. based multinationals! As for greedy American corporations - I can't say you don't have a point, but I will say this... if some of them do it, they all have to do it, just to stay competitive.

This will last until the first class action lawsuits against those same corporations get rolling.

These outsourcing companies have forgotten a few things about their precious low cost new sources;

1. Copyright and patent protection? - a fiction,

2. Security of files against identity theft? - a joke,

3. Ethics in management? - They think we are chumps,

4. Respect for our laws including tax? - Something to ignore until caught

5. Integrity of data? - India alone is the source of major computer viruses and worms.

The "short-run maximizers" who run so many of todays corporations have sacrificed every value, every standard, and most of the ethics on the blood soaked altar of the conventional wisdom of the short run dollar.. They are sowing the wind.

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That's an unfair statement.

No, it's not at all unfair.

The wages these Indian employees get are actually quite high for the Indian labor market.

Bingo! The key words here are "QUITE HIGH FOR THE INDIAN LABOR MARKET,"which means that they are prostituting their skills to greedy American corporations for wages that are MUCH LOWER WITH NO BENEFITS! That's NOT competition. IF they demanded the same wages and benefits that Americans were getting, the companies never would have relocated to India.

That's why you have Indian MBA's clamoring for telemarketer positions with U.S. based multinationals! As for greedy American corporations - I can't say you don't have a point, but I will say this... if some of them do it, they all have to do it, just to stay competitive.

The ONLY competition that Indians have done is the competing they do against each other as American companies are deciding which Indians they are hiring from the pool of Indian applicants. I don't feel sorry for their MBA's having to work as telemarketers. If they can't get one of the American jobs that are now in India, it's because of the competition between applicants IN INDIA!