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This is the same alarmist outcry that happened in the 90s... "India has a billion people who are educated and cheaper! Outsourcing will kill all the tech jobs!"

This is the same alarmist outcry that happened in the 90s... "India has a billion people who are educated and cheaper! Outsourcing will kill all the tech jobs!" I think the thing that folks keep missing is that technology isn't a zero sum game. So what if there are a shitload of people in the east doing programming cheaper? 9/10 of the 'type' of programming they're doing is grunt work that no one really wants to do anyway. Will some people feel the 'crunch' from this? probably, in the short term. But technical acumen doesn't sit still. We're not all languishing on our laurels with technology from the 90s while the Chinese are gearing up for total war. A much BIGGER problem, IMO, is our social policies tending towards overt xenophobia. THAT is what will kill the US and the Western European countries if we don't get off of this nationalist bandwagon that we find ourselves on.

coldtea 9y ago
>This is the same alarmist outcry that happened in the 90s... "India has a billion people who are educated and cheaper! Outsourcing will kill all the tech jobs!" And it will -- as it already ate lots of service and call center jobs. But these things take time, and India's schools are not exactly best of class.
cmahler7 9y ago
china is the most racist and nationalist country in the world and they are doing just fine. Why is the US and Europe the only places that have to sacrifice themselves for the greater good of globalism? Why do China and Japan get free passes while anything done in the west to protect citizens interests is decried as xenophobic?
- jameswatson_iii 9y ago
  Careful, you are exposing our dear cocooned friends to facts which may trigger immense cognitive dissonance. Statements such as this are tantamount to heresy within the new religion of globalism that has plagued the minds of the masses for the past half century.
- MockObject 9y ago
  Created an account just to vote up this comment.
samsonradu 9y ago
I think it's not xenophobia, the biggest problem is actually wage inequality. It s quite suprising that the US, with all its prosperity (gdp per capita) doesn't have a huge safety net, on the contrary. Meanwhile US corporations and individuals, same ones that outsourced the jobs, have more cash at hand than you can pronounce. I sometimes believe it lacks a bit of socialism.

coldtea 9y ago

>This is the same alarmist outcry that happened in the 90s... "India has a billion people who are educated and cheaper! Outsourcing will kill all the tech jobs!" And it will -- as it already ate lots of service and call center jobs. But these things take time, and India's schools are not exactly best of class.

cmahler7 9y ago

china is the most racist and nationalist country in the world and they are doing just fine. Why is the US and Europe the only places that have to sacrifice themselves for the greater good of globalism? Why do China and Japan get free passes while anything done in the west to protect citizens interests is decried as xenophobic?

jameswatson_iii 9y ago
Careful, you are exposing our dear cocooned friends to facts which may trigger immense cognitive dissonance. Statements such as this are tantamount to heresy within the new religion of globalism that has plagued the minds of the masses for the past half century.
MockObject 9y ago
Created an account just to vote up this comment.

samsonradu 9y ago

I think it's not xenophobia, the biggest problem is actually wage inequality. It s quite suprising that the US, with all its prosperity (gdp per capita) doesn't have a huge safety net, on the contrary. Meanwhile US corporations and individuals, same ones that outsourced the jobs, have more cash at hand than you can pronounce. I sometimes believe it lacks a bit of socialism.