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As the crisis moves forward we will probably see a fraction of every profession moved to developing countries. Either by Western professionals who move there t
by c1sc0 16y ago
As the crisis moves forward we will probably see a fraction of every profession moved to developing countries. Either by Western professionals who move there to enjoy the lower cost of living or outright replacement by outsourced professionals. So this doesn't really surprise me.
I've started to think about outsourcing as a long-overdue redistribution of wealth & as such I'm not opposed to it: if you can work more efficiently by outsourcing, you should outsource. Most employees in the West are spoiled brats & deserve to be shaken a little anyway.
- Setsuna 16y ago>Most employees in the West are spoiled brats & deserve to be shaken a little How do you prove this?
- tomjen3 16y agoHe doesn't, this is a discussion forum not a journal article. We don't require you to cite sources.
- c1sc0 16y agoMost people in the West are way higher up on Maslow's pyramid than people in the developing world. There's no arguing with basics like availability of clean water, food, clothing, healthcare. After your basics are covered it's up to you to decide whether you work your ass off improving yourself or settling for the status quo of luxury that living in Western society provides. Whenever I come back from a developing country I think "We're fucked & we deserve it". People in developing countries are just as capable & ingenious; they are more likely to work hard because they see a path of progress in front of them. In the West we have become so accustomed to our luxuries that instead of working harder, we settle for the status quo far too often.
- Setsuna 16y agoBut isn't life all about living happily?
- vorg 16y ago"Most employees in the West are spoiled brats & deserve to be shaken a little anyway." Many have been shaken a lot by the effects of outsourcing.
- gaius 16y agoBut no-one wants to live in a world like that. Imagine * All airlines are like RyanAir * All restaurants are fast food * All supermarkets are Lidl * All music is Autotune * All clothes are polyester A race to the bottom is stupid and ultimately self-destructive, the money you save in the short term you lose tenfold in the long term when everything you actually want is bespoke because the middle-market mass producers have all been bankrupted.
- jimbokun 16y agoDoesn't sound that far off from the world we actually live in.
- cynicalkane 16y agoSo if we outsource stuff to India, all the sit-down resturants in the United States will be forced to close? What?
- olefoo 16y agoIf there isn't a sufficiently large class of people with both the money and the leisure time to be able to support the restaurant industry; yes. It's like this, if people who were earning enough to afford a decent sized apartment in a safe neighborhood with enough left over to eat out once in a while are all fired and replaced by overseas workers; their disposable income spending goes away too. And thus all of the businesses that were dependent on their being customers go away too.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoIf we outsource lawyers, now everyone who was previously a lawyer can do other productive work; to keep things simple, imagine they all become maids/housekeepers. After this transition, we get the same legal services we had before (but provided by different people) and some people have cleaner houses. This may be bad for the lawyers and people in India who need legal services, but it's good for everyone else.
- grammaton 16y ago"Most employees in the West are spoiled brats & deserve to be shaken a little anyway." Sure, we should know our place like good little slaves, right? Hauteur and arrogance are not a valid basis for rational argument.