>>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).
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>>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.
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>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.

EXACTLY!!! And it NEEDS TO BE THE #1 PRIORITY of any entity that has "influence" on people (their work, their governance, their control, etc).