>>An american from the U.S.A. came to visit the other day.
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>>We talked about outsourcing to India. I told him why I thought that was'nt really good for the local economy affected.
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>>But his anwer was that outsourcing is good because it gets the stupid jobs to India while in the meantime guys from USA can do more intelligent things.
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>>So considering that outsourcing is just beginning and that we could expect the worst to come in that area, how do you feel about that affirmation? Are USA'ers really that bright?
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>Is it a puzzle? < g >

If you mean finding a solution to the outsourcing problem. It could be. But be aware that this puzzle is extremely tricky to solve and it looks like that there are no rules.


>My husband has PhD in Mechanical Engineering. He says, that there are practically no Americans trying to get PhDs. All his colleagues are Chinese or Indian...

This would be too complex to try to solve in this thread. Perhaps money has something to do with this. For example I heard people here say that it was'nt worth it to get one because the additional money that they would get from it was'nt worth the efforts.

So perhaps in some places it's a question of prestige, other places a question of money and other places a question of fulfilment.