[opendtv] Re: How India is saving capitalism
- From: "John Shutt" <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 12:08:45 -0400
It was about a decade ago that the internet was supposed to open up the
possibility of telecommuting to your job...staying at home, not clogging up
the highways, doing all of your work from the comfort of your own home.
Once the idea of telecommuting became a reality, it was an unintended
consequence that you could just as easily telecommute from Bangalore as you
could from Knob Hill.
India has had for much of it's history a socialist economy. They are just
now embracing capitalism and the results are beginning to show. However,
all of these IT jobs in India are fine as long as India is at peace with her
neighbors the Pakistanis and the Chinese. Right now with the War on
Terrorism raging, and the U.S. being very heavy handed with the Musharraf
regime to play nice with India, things are calming down.
What happens if Pakistan and India have a third war over the Jammu and
Kashmir region, as seemed likely just two short years ago? Suddenly, the
prospects of economic and political instability in India makes the idea of
having you IT brain trust there not so appealing, and the highest priority
jobs will come home again.
Or maybe India realizes that in order to keep her IT jobs and the standard
of living going for their growing middle class they need to keep the saber
rattling down to a minimum, and the real unintended consequence of
outsourcing becomes a safer and more stable global community.
Is outsourcing of call centers, then, such a high price to pay for world
peace?
Cheers,
John Shutt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lindhoff, Andrew (PHPPO)" <axl1@xxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 10:44 AM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: How India is saving capitalism
> Monty:
>
> Carrying-out Katharine's logic to its fullest extent, then, if I buy a
> gun and kill several people who design and manufacture guns, then
> they're at fault for designing and manufacturing them, and I'm not for
> using them against them in a lethal manner? Give me a break. I wonder
> if Katharine would be so cavalier about the offshoring issue, if her job
> had been offshored...and nowadays, it might easily be.
>
> Drew Lindhoff. =20
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