[Doohickey]

Labor is ''a mouse click away, more skilled and at one-fifth of the cost,'' said Rudy Puryear, a partner with Bain & Co. in Chicago, who advises clients on such off-shoring issues. ''There's been an acceleration of that over the last three or four years.''

Well, there you have it. The offshoring industry's new mantra to spin their selling-out of Americans. Americans are too stupid to hold technical jobs.

[Johnny Crab]

Americans are too stupid to hold technical jobs.

That's why Americans show 'em how not to launch rockets into villages, how to {insert technology here}. I have seen the enemy and he is NOT us.

[Dialup Llama]

>>Labor is ''a mouse click away, more skilled and at one-fifth of the cost,'' said Rudy Puryear, a partner with Bain & Co. in Chicago, who advises clients on such off-shoring issues. ''There's been an acceleration of that over the last three or four years.''

>Well, there you have it. The offshoring industry's new mantra to spin their selling-out of Americans. Americans are too stupid to hold technical jobs.

This mantra is a lie in more ways that one. Yes the end employee in Inda may make that much, but the service bureau is not passing those saving on. They are basically just laying in a low bid a 20% below everyone else. The savings realized aren't all that tremendous.

What is the answer? One thing is the days of casually sharing technical info are over. If I figure something out, it remains proprietary and people will have to pay to learn about it.

[kezekiel]

Well, there you have it. The offshoring industry's new mantra to spin their selling-out of Americans. Americans are too stupid to hold technical jobs.

Yeah... I remember that in the late 70's and early 80's, it was the slow, fat, overpaid, underworking union blokes that were the problem. Then, laid off people were encouraged to become "knowledge workers." That must explain why the IT people are overpaid and underskilled... they're all the old union people!