jobs out to sea?
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- monkeyshine
Just listened to evening news talk about how white color jobs are not so slowly moving overseas (to places like India)...just another reason to leave the States.
I then had to call AOL Customer Service and a man with an Indian accent answered...an aside: have you noticed when you call customer service, you get through pretty quickly unless its a billing question and then you are on hold for 20 minutes. Hhmmm..conspiracy?
- Peter0
"white color jobs are not so slowly moving overseas (to places like India)...just another reason to leave the States. "
You will leave the states for India, to get hired by an American company?
- unknown0
I think we have (Americans) somehow managed to price ourselves out of the world market. Perhaps the best solution is to move to a third world country so we can afford to accept world-competitive wages while still having a quality lifestyle.
Maybe the American lifestyle is just not sustainable anymore. I look at Los Angeles real estate prices and really start wondering seriously about this. Do I want to work like crazy for the rest of my life and have the single monument for my success being (if I'm really lucky) ownership of a $400,000 tract home that sold for $25,000 50 years ago?
I'll bet those people taking $5,000 a year in India are pretty darn comfortable. Per capita GNP is about $2,400. And an expat, without the thick accent and with good communications skills, could probably make significantly more.
Just a thought ... but (for me at least) an interesting one.
- monkeyshine0
true...yeah, they make 6,000 a year...well, the programmers do.
- ********0
Yep that's true, it's cheaper so people (powers that be) in US contract outside. Which basically undercuts the US economy. I used to work with a company that did the same thing. No big deal, it's been happening one way or another since US was started. We also import a ton of stuff too and always have.
- Bunkum0
The rise in the amount of millionaires made in Britian over the last few years correlates with the rise in businesses going bust and job losses. Wired, huh.
- mbr0
Not that weird. It's happening again. It's power and money. The more you monoplolize, the more power and money you have, giving you more leverage to control more. Therefore, you just kill your competition, fire your workers (here), ship the work across seas and you are making more pocket money and more money for the company.
The problem with the US is that it is consumer driven (too much so). We only provide services, no real commodities, so now the rest of the world is catching on, or rather, those in power are educating those in 3rd wrld cntrs so that they can fulfull the requirements of the workers here.
This is not something that has been going on before, not like it is now. Before it was just simple manual labor, now it is highly educated folk competiting. The US, I am becoming more and mroe convinced, will see a drastic demise in the nest few decades due to this and our fucking moron of the Pres. and his malicious Energy tactic that will basically wipe out any chance of us ever being self suffecient and rely on OIL forever (or until he dies). Not to mention the environment.
Nothing looks good for the US, at least in my lifetime. Maybe we should all just start a civil war and fight all the corrupt CEOs and the Bush supporters. That's a battle I'd gladly volunteer for.
- Bunkum0
Sorry, I meant wierd (sarcastic). Same is happening in the UK which is why Mr Blair is paying so many visits to the US. British governments have deregulated everything and anything they could so rampant greed and get rich quick schemes have flourished. Big telecommucations company (once public, now private, always shambolic) investing millions in call centres in India.
- dstlb0
Isn't that 'white collar', not 'white color'? White collar means office jobs, white color means jobs for white people, quite a major difference there.