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February 01, 2005

paper tiger

"sending work over to asia & india"
ok, i know this is a topic that's been getting alot of press in the news. i will say that i can agree with some of the reasons of why to go abroad for product development & services. i mean it's a free market & to be resourceful is what capitalism is all about right? an example is the latest international business joke i've read " the mexicans have learned from usa. now when the usa sends something to mexico (via the NAFTA agreements), mexicans are starting to turn around & then contract the work out to the chinese. so we can buy a product that's sold by an american company which has supposedly been made in mexico, yet has a made in china sticker on it."

the united states has already begun in many many ways to start kissing the chinese government asses. i mean why wouldn't they? it's a new business culture with the largest population in the world that's ready to work for little money. the chinese dollar is paried off the usa's dollar. well this is true in part until the dollar hits its economic low this up coming year.?. anyhow, the usa just needs to get in bed with communism so they can turn her tricks (people) into american favors. china is one of the last open opportunities for outsourced cheap labor. not to mention they are enduring & are willing to deal with the usa to get what they need for the long haul. the good ol'usa knows this, plus the chinese are extremely smart. they have excellent copying skills, self worth, driven & resourceful. not to mention they have been so protected by the red wall of the chinese government that they all love the western society psychology of materialism. so don't think the good ol'usa isn't ready to jump in on the action then later in life threaten the strong arm. which in a sense is irony since china is 1,298,000,000 strong as of 2004. where as the usa is at 295,000,000 strong as of 2004. the subtraction math at this point is easy.

as for India its a hotspot for white collar jobs to be outsourced into, not to mention factory work. but the american government missed this one a few years back. they f-'d up, then underestimated the powers of the indian educational system & driven values of an aged cast system. i mean seriously, india has very smart people. the usa understands this & thats why clinton opended up an expansion for the H1 visa applicants while he was in office towards the end of his term. mainly so more technical people could be hired for the tele & technology sec tor. (right before the .com bubble popped) as a hiring manager at several software companies my motto was "i would rather hire indian developers & engineers over americans any day of the week. mass numbers of the best indian developers could take the pepsi challenge with american developers & walk way in victory." this my friends is a FACT & believe me, most technology companies brain powers will/have always ended up in an indian developers hands. (amazon, microsoft, apple, telecommunication groups, anything online,.....you name it.)

anyhow, now the american government is getting on the ball & looking into the matter. ha ha lol. it's like the old analogy of talking to a baby boomer & trying to explain how a computer works. (damn, don't even get me started on the baby boomer theory i have. i could go on listing reasons & specifics of the concentrated demographic band of individualistic gimme gimmes that are disjointed & ROI self-loathing. phew! enough said there)

here's some gateway reads i dug up @ wired magizine:
"right brain left brain" | "more here..." | "good people"

Posted by Single Fin at February 1, 2005 04:55 PM

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