John: It is if it causes a depression to take place in this country as more than just call centers are offshored to save a buck or two. Also, as I understand it, the folks in India are being paid anywhere from $3K to $11K per year to handle these offshored jobs. If that's the middle class in India, I sure would hate to know what the poor folks are making. Drew Lindhoff. =20 -----Original Message----- From: John Shutt [mailto:shuttj@xxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 12:09 PM To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [opendtv] Re: How India is saving capitalism 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 -----=20 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=20 > 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=20 > wonder if Katharine would be so cavalier about the offshoring issue,=20 > if her job had been offshored...and nowadays, it might easily be. > > Drew Lindhoff. =3D20 =20 =20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org=20 - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.