What Joel should argue, in addition to "don't outsource programming", is that one could augment sales and marketing. A sales and marketing team in a major regio

What Joel should argue, in addition to "don't outsource programming", is that one could augment sales and marketing. A sales and marketing team in a major region like China or Russia could multiply good coding done at home. If code is the analogue to manufacturing in the digital age, why would one outsource the manufacturing of the new industrial revolution? It would be like Henry Ford contracting with Mexico instead of building factories in Michigan.