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Re: Just a Phone Call Away (Score: 1)
by dawingsoffury on Tuesday, January 06 @ 16:57:24 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | It is not the Indians who are taking jobs away, it is American companies who are hiring them for cheaper. If you want to blame somebody, blame the companies who are outsourcing, not the workers who are doing their jobs for less money. And your reasoning is also fallacious. Your reasoning is since Indian workers don't work in America, they shouldn't be allowed to work for an American company. I would like to point out that plenty of American workers work for huge foreign companies like Sony, Nokia, and SAP. Should all these foreign companies dump their American employees because these Americans don't pay taxes to their countries, they don't support them, or helped create these companies. It is a double standard. |
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Re: Just a Phone Call Away (Score: 1)
by Allenby on Wednesday, January 07 @ 17:22:49 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | More than the Indian or American workers or indian or american governments or corporations, I think the big "culprit" is . . . the American consumer. Let's face it most of us are value conscious and if we can buy the same product for a cheaper pricethen that's what we're gonna do. Until American consumers value "Made in america" as worth the cost difference betwee a more expensive American product or service over an indian one, then there will always be pressure on these companies to find indian (or chinese) workers to lower the cost of their products. by buying more expensive ameircan products over cheaper foreign ones where the products are relatively equal in quality), the american consumer is basically subsidizing the higher-wage american worker who made the product. this may be a worhtwhile goal, but it does run against the idea of getting the most for your money when shopping.
i suppose the case of india may hit home closer for the middle class than china b/c india seems to becoming very competitive in service and i.t. fields. china also has skilled service and i.t. folks of course, but the majority of its export economy is right now built on manufacturing. so while china further erodes our manufacturing base (which has been diminishing for like 30 years now), india gets closer to the heart of our information and service based economy that fuels the middle class. |
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