RE: [Marxism] RE: Down-Sourcing

["Jose G. Perez" <jgperez@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>I would shy away from underestimation of Asian production
capabilities. The US fell for Japanese ?inferiority? (?Made in Japan?
once meant cheap and shoddy) only to experience a flood of advanced
merchandise at more than competitive prices.  The production capacity of
India and China is factors greater than Japan?<<

What I was driving at wasn't really about "production" as such, not of
goods. It is that software and services are much more *cultural*
"products" and that the new people working on these "products" for IBM
may well not have the shared common cultural background (contextual
knowledge) needed to produce them. 

José


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