One in 10 U.S. Tech Jobs May Move Overseas, Report Says

Reuters ^ | July 29, 2003 | Eric Auchard

[just_living]

sheesh.. usually this is posted sooner... just_living : Since Jul 30, 2003

I'll take that to mean fresh ideas are not welcomed?

Did you not see several people attack me as a Newbie? It was posted earlier. Sheesh.

[sten]

Your goal is quite the opposite. You are hoping to incite people and distract from the main point. You hope to derail any meaningful conversation and thereby stop any possible opposition to the plans of those you align yourself with.

[sten]

"You will get yours, Benny."
   - Brendan Frasier, The Mummy

[Leatherneck_MT]

I'll add that they should be barred from ever selling so much as a paper weight in the United States ever again.

[clamper1797]

Globalism is treason

Bingo ... we have a winner !!!!

[clamper1797]

I am all for the market deciding what is right. And in this case our overfeed programmers are going to have to figure out how to make themselves attractive to our top corporations once again. This last sentence alone shows you to be be either ignorant of this issue or merely another hard core anti-American who merely wants to see some Americans suffer.

AND a serious case of class envy ....

[waterstraat]

I dont understand how this is making america better?

[remember]

Could you compete against a half-way qualified worker whose cost of living was one quarter of yours?

Yes. By being fully qualified. That is what a sound business is going to want. Some of you are missing my point. I said the only way we can compete it to either lower our prices (since we had priced ourselves out of the market with our current skill set) or get better skills. I really don't expect us to lower our wages, what I expect is we'll use our brains to develop skills that are more cutting edge.

I should have said "fully-qualified worker". I have worked with a number of H1-B visa workers who are highly qualified. The fact is, there is nothing inherently superior about the American worker. We have a slight advantage when it comes to communicating in English and in interfacing with American customers. But for many jobs, such as IT jobs, this is not a requirement. So, to rephrase my question, could you compete against a fully-qualified worker whose cost of living is one quarter of yours?

On the other hand, our economy and general business environment may be superior to most countries. Hence, we are providing a benefit to many foreign workers by providing them with jobs that their own economies cannot yet provide. And I suspect that those jobs will serve as a foundation for competing companies to be started in those countries. Of course, I doubt that any of our policies are designed to purposely help those countries. As is to often the case, they are geared for the short-term benefit of our most influential companies. What they should be geared for is the long-term benefit of all of our citizens.

[FR_addict]

Bump.