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More trends than just costs

There are more trends and forces in the world than money, and one of them is at work in the responses to this advertisement, er, editorial, and in the groups that have formed to fight offshoring. That force is the instinctive understanding Americans have that we cannot remain a first world nation and permit our best minds to be siphoned off into soft-skilled careers of playing offshoring midwives to penny-wage nations.

It's not going to do this country any good for its brightest technical minds to divert themselves in their careers by helping parasitic offshoring companies dismantle the system of high-achievement / high-reward career paths we have established and which has had as one of its end-products the information technology age itself.

What India needs to do is what China is doing- create a non-parasitic business model. The problem with being a parasite is that ultimately you kill your host.

Cheaper labor is not innovation. The "productivity" that the absence of all labor laws and worker's rights, such as that found in India, achieves nothing in the way of progress for society at large. Rather, it produces a non-productive, but very rich and powerful, oligarchy, whose existence contributes to the further abasement of populations both in the developed and the developing worlds.

I want to see India succeed. It will not do that until it's economic model is predicated on something other than its lack of labor law enforcement, corrupt judiciary and cheap labor. No-one in any boardroom takes seriously the self-conferred mantle of "superior minds" that has become part and parcel of every offshoring pitch; they move jobs to India because of it's cheap labor and lax labor laws, period.

India needs to succeed on its own terms. It needs it's own software products, it's own factories, its own internal market. Then and only then will it take it's rightful place amongst the developed nations and truly serve the interests of its diverse and deserving people.

Posted by: Java_developer   Posted on: 12/05/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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