On Dec 8, 2004, at 2:05 PM, Damon Agretto wrote:
Possibly in a few more years the company will be able to hire cheap technical labor from some third-world economic power to keep everything competitively profitable. Wonder if the US will be the third-world economic power in question.
There's a lot of that going on...my company is outcourcing most of their finance dept...including my job. Joy. By March I will be unemployed once again. For the 2nd time...
I've been trying to think of a snappy comeback to this for a while now but I just can't, because the entire outsource thing sucks donkey dong. Part of the reason things dried up at my prior venue in the upper midwest was outsourcing. At that time I got a lot of feel-good BS platitudes from damned cretins, all of whom said "hey, it'll help the economy in the long run..."
That might or might not be true. Doesn't do a g*ddamned thing for anyone who's lost employment, benefits and so on as a result of cheap-bastard money-grubbing CEOs.
Capitalism's greatest fault is that it focuses far too exclusively on profit, which inspires a lot of narrow-focus, short-term thinking, a remarkable quantity of which is quite selfish and classically penny wise and pound foolish.
I feel, to quote Bill Clinton, your pain.
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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