> Now, they're even trying to outsource writing software. At the moment, the > problem is that few of the Asian programmers have the necessary > mindset to write code well. Then there is the disconnect from managing > projects with teams 8-12 timezones apart. Eventually, the software culture > will develop in Asia while fewer and fewer American kids learn how to > program, and we'll be left wondering how to support ourselves, with nobody > left > qualified to design or manufacture anything in this country. > > In the meantime, we can get stuff cheap at Wal-Mart. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est
I've been saying it for a long time (as I'm affected every day by either outsourced or on-shored technical workers). When the majority of the population is working at McDonald's or Walmart, who will be making the money to buy the SUV's and flat-screen TV's? I'm not sure it's a matter of mindset, per se for those workers, but I generally agree. It's more that their county's labor markets have been handed hundreds of thousands of jobs that would have formerly been held by native citizens because their labor can be had at a far cheaper price. Hence thousands of qualified, but many more under-qualified and nominally-qualified workers get the jobs because all corporations can see is the immediate reduction in labor costs, not the fact that they'll have to do the job three times to get it done right, or that they've created a whole class of un-/under-employed people in their own backyard. It's basically business and political leaders pulling the rug out from under it's citizens to increase stockholder wealth, plain and simple. I won't vouch for all the claims made on this website but I believe it's basically correct: http://www.zazona.com/shameh1b/ Communism collapsed under the weight of it's own inefficiency and lack of moral legitimacy. It's leaders acquired and maintained power and wealth through fear, and control. Capitalism appears to be imploding because it's leaders (business and political) are more interested in acquiring and maintaining power and wealth for themselves than in seeing to it that the average person has the means to make a decent living and provide for their families. It's quickly losing it's moral legitimacy as well. When capitalism finally devours the citizens it's built upon, it will be dead. Put another way, when inflated self-interest turns into blatant disinterest in the welfare of others the system becomes strained, and historically breaks. But I digress, this was about Kodak. Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
