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MS to hire MANY (19,000 I think) in INDIA
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03/08/2004 19:55:07
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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03/08/2004 16:48:40
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>Sure it's good for Indians and India. BUT why does it have to be for one, at the expense of another?????
>And I wonder how many of the jobs, if not all, are replacements for jobs liquidated here (or there if SAP) (i.e. not new jobs).
>
>This now standard method of LOWERING some ships to raise others may be fine when it involves things, but when it involves PEOPLE it is distinctly WRONG.
>It clearly is exploitation of the highest order, and when salaries get too high in india they'll be off to China. A very few get very very rich and the rest get poorer and poorer in the longer run.

Well, I think one thing we do agree on is the following. Whatever the outcome, it is quite obvious that the welfare of the people is not exactly priority #1 when making this sort of decisions.
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)
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