>Its very different. In the computer scenario, we are eliminating a human being from a mundane and difficult manual process.

While some, if not most, of the jobs we are eliminating may be mundane and difficult, that job was paying somebody's bills and putting food on the table.

>In production scenario, we are taking a human from a process but giving their responsiblites to another human because that second human happens to live on the other side of an imaginary line drawn on our globe because, apparently, the human on the other side of the border is worth less in wages, reducing costs for the entire operation.
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>For the record, I don't support the idea that the worth of a human being's labor is dependant on their lattitude and longitude.

Good point.