So you didn't know what your value was. That says more about you than outsourcing or anything else. What you should have been able to say is that that $3/hr I

So you didn't know what your value was. That says more about you than outsourcing or anything else. What you should have been able to say is that that $3/hr Indian worker doesn't have the experience (and therefor level of skill) that you do. If he did it's extremely unlikely that he would continue to work for $3/hr. Sure, maybe he can live a comfortable life on $3/hr in India, but if he leverages his experience to move to a first world country to make money he can become rich (provided he lives frugally in said first world country and invests his money back home). Which is why so many do it.