Keith Hudson wrote: [snip]
But it's the higher skill jobs that is the rub -- in the medical, accountancy, architectural, and perhaps legal, professions that are mentioned below. (And, probably, many more to be added in the coming years.) Yes, these professionals in India and elsewhere in Asia have lower fees than those in the west, but it wasn't this factor in the first place that caused these jobs to go abroad. It was that employers needed more of these jobs than the home country could supply. There just aren't enough of these higher-skill people in the west.[snip]
Perhaps in some cases there are not enough skills here to go around.
But I think more often the issus is offloading vs social change -- and, of course, ofloading wins every time with the people ensconsed in power.
Global outsourcing is like the computer: It enables society to continue with its hitherto social practices when the volume of dat to be processed exceeds the headcount available to do it according to the existing social structural forms.
But the social forms *could* change!
I think the bottom line is:
Which side are you on?
What persons are to be included in the *we* for whom society exists, and what persons are to be included in the resource pool those persons dispose over to reproduce their individual and species life?
The American worker, and even the American engineer and architect (excluding, of course, the chic star architects like Robert Venturi), et al. are not part of the *we* in our so-called society.
I think we seriously need to look into outsourcing sports idols, movie stars, CxOs and senior government oficials from lower-cost countries. It only makes sense to cut costs, or at least tio cut their aspirations down to LGD size (Lowest Global Denominator).
\brad mccormick
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