>SNIP
>>>That was the reason Ken Levy to be able to sell 8000 VFP copies in India
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>>More and more studies show that India is not that good a deal. More and more companies are not totally satisfied with the way things are done over there. Anyways only the biggest companies will save money by outsourcing. It'S totally nonsense for small companies to do it.
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>Denis,
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>I bet that India is just a stop-over until China is "equipped" to do such work.
>China, with it's TOTAL CONTROL over workers, is far more attractive to business, no matter the size.
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>Also, don't be so smug in your assertion that outsourcing is nonsense to smaller companies. As tele-commuting increases more and more small companies will participate. Once that happens, does it really matter where the person doing the work lives?
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>Some U.S. medical facilities are experimenting with having radiological 'pictures' read in India (again, temporarily, until China can handle). [In Ontario this skill is the highest paid and most in demand of all of the medical skills.]
>Do you suppose that they are passing the "savings" on to their patients? Do you suppose that they are even informing their patients that this is happening?
>My guess is no on both counts!
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>When we all have McJobs, neither WalMart (that popularized the trend to China) nor those that followed in their footsteps will have too many customers any more. We'll all be buying second-hand items because that'll be all we can afford!

Jim,

"La presse" has a special edition that started friday about how oursourcing to India is going to affect us. I have'nt read today's edition yet. I'll tell you of any interesting stuff I see in there.

I just hope that we're panicking more than we should be. Something tells me that the nonsense is going to stop sooner than later. What surprises me is that nobody really seems to have realized by now that this "cutting job craze" is the reverse of the capitalist system.