[ale] OT: more info on where all the jobs are (going...)

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Riiiiiiiiight. You say that at a time when America has millions protesting 
it's aggresive intent to wage war on a country that is ironically guilty of 
charges that could be levied against itself.

What is more likely to happen is WE will go to war, and the jobs will be 
safely nestled in countries like Pakistan, India and Romaina/Russia. The fact 
that the work can be internet based greatly reduces the effect that a 
localized war would have. India gets nuked? Take the business to any country 
that is *not* trying to wage war and has lower prices, and etc. (see article)

One could remotely construe the corporation's' exporting labor as a moral 
political protest against high prices, economic instability, and unfair 
competition for global labor. Or not.

Drew


On Saturday 15 March 2003 19:35, George Johnson wrote:
> Yes.  Just wait until Pakistan hits India with a nuke in just that right
> spot that takes out the technology parks, or Russia goes south from
> being a "friendly" nation.  Then these corporate bozos will scramble
> back to what is left of us that will still know how to do the job.  Then
> the $$$ will be sky high due to demand.
>
> I only wonder what will happen during a world war if most of these
> countries become enemies or the communication is broken.  We will find
> out these jobs were better off on our shores.  Then there is the
> manufacturing that will have to be rebuilt for our own war machine.
>
> So this over seas sell off of our jobs, I believe, will come back to
> haunt us in the end.
>
> gj
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org] On Behalf Of Marvin
> Dickens
> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 4:55 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] OT: more info on where all the jobs are (going...)
>
> On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 14:43:19 -0500 (EST)
>
> "J.M. Taylor" <jtaylor at onlinea.com> wrote the following:
> > Geoffrey said:
> > > I've been on the
> > > receiving end of software produced overseas as well as by
>
> contractors
>
> > > who can't even verbally communicate.  The code works, but sucks.
>
> It's
>
> > > not well written, it's not documented (if they don't have a command
>
> of
>
> > > the language, they can't speak OR write it).
>
> Look, there is a lot that can happen in this year alone much less 3 to 5
> years from now. The fact is that everday the world is becoming less
> stable politically and economically. This is true for the US as well as
> Europe and Asia. Think about it like this: If the US is 1 % more
> politically and economically unstable today than it was 5 years ago
> equates to a  50% rise in instability in emmerging third world nations
> (Like India and Russia). As a CEO or member of a board, would you bet
> your future in outsourcing IT into countries that are seriously
> unstable? I think not...
>
> My point is that all of the talking heads (Like the Gardner Group...)
> making predictions regarding overseas outsourcing are not taking into
> account the rising instability of all nations and especially the fast
> rising instability of emmerging third world nations. It's not gonna
> happen as fast or as pervasive as they predict.
>
> Best
>
> Marvin Dickens
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