http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=22102271A lot of threads recently had to do with the threat of outsourcing to cheaper countries... According to the opinions expressed in the above link, advances in technology pose a greater threat.
...So the anger expressed by politicians and workers over high-tech jobs lost to India and other low-wage countries is really a distraction from the real threat, according to Strategy Analytics. "Looking forward, we don't really see the big threat in the long run being outsourcing to India," Cohen said. "We see the real threat from outsourcing to intelligent capital."
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)