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On your first question, I think the issue is that Americans have gotten accustomed to the loss of manufacturing sector jobs, but the argument had always been th
by lvs 10y ago
On your first question, I think the issue is that Americans have gotten accustomed to the loss of manufacturing sector jobs, but the argument had always been that we were slowly switching to a service and/or "knowledge" economy. The kind of outsourcing described in the article challenges the claim that Americans are competitive even in those employment sectors.
As an aside, UCSF is not a company, so your point about anything-goes competition is in this case a non-sequitur.
- zanny 10y agoIt isn't a skills problem, its a salary problem. Cost of living in the US is astronomical compared to any of the nations you import IT labor from. The only leg up the US (still) has is that there is no accountability in bad business done overseas - if you get crap products from your outsourced developer team, you don't have a floor to go down the elevator to where you can yell at a project lead in person.