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USA Today's "Endangered species: US programmers"
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15/10/2004 19:48:13
 
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>Hi Denis,
>in the beginning we try to teach everybody in DB, after that we understood that this is non sense. Now we train only the best and close the door for low qualified.
>We reach stage with less peopple to produce more. The same happens in USA with IT outsourcing.
>I suppose that qualified people like more in UT always will have the job, but lazy and low qualified will have never had chance to work as IT specialist.
>The outsourcing is chance for al of us to show that we are professionalist and to not lose our time with stupid guys which like someone other to do their job. And they in the end of the moth to get the money

I wish that was true, Jordan. It was, at one time, but no more.
Business is "business" and "business" has no conscience.
Business is going to India now because China isn't ready yet for that type of work. Once China is ready, bye-bye India... hello China!
You see, Jordan, here in North America we have plenty of capable qualified people who can produce more. They do it every day! many many people now work for pay for 40hrs and an additional 20-40 hours 'for free', just to kep their jobs so that they can keep all the crdit card purchases they've made.

But businesses here mainly use that when they are (quietly, of course) preparing to move to China (or India or...).
Business wants cheap and CONTROLLED labour, and China is exactly the right place! India works in the interim because it does still have "cheap", but still not as cheap as China and certainly with no control like China offers!!!
Business does not care if workers are killed or get injured/sick while on the job. Regulations help to make them "care", but with no regulations in China (except pay the bribes on time to the Party people) business gets much lower costs. With costs like they are in China, especially with the CONTROL also offered, companies have no real incentive to use much in the way of robots or other automation. Sure, many do because that's what the had here when they de-installed, but I think you'll see that the incidences of new automation in these countries will be very low. No need!

It's very easy to make "globalization" sound like it is for the benefit of everyone. But in fact, as with everything in life, someone has to pay. Sadly, it is not only the workers here who LOSE THEIR JOBS but it is also the workers in China who are put into dangerous situations and work for peanuts BY FORCE. The ONLY "winner" is the corporations, and when there is no one left who can afford their goods it should get interesting.

In the early 1900s Henry Ford paid his workers a dollar an hour - considered outrageous by other company owners - so that his workers could afford his products. Today workers get less and less, then nothing. How do the corporations think they will be able to sell their products????

Jim
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