[Marxism] RE: Down-Sourcing

[Chris Brady <cdbrady@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

José, I've admired your deep knowledge of computer communications.
Mixed with your Marxism, it provides useful work.  The point you brought
up is intriguing.  Narrow experts in either Marxism or IT would not have
the conceptual prerequisites.  BTW, you probably happened to see this
BusinessWeek article (following, in part) wherein the author reminds us
that foreign, down-paid labor for IT can come from Russia as well as
India, but that domestic down-sourcing seems quite "interesting" (I hear
"werry ee-eentairess-tee-een" as subtext).  The actuality of worker's
humanity never enters consideration:

GROWING CONCERNS
U.S. Programmers at Overseas Salaries
By David E. Gumpert
BUSINESSWEEK, 2 DECEMBER 2003
Rather than send IT work to India, a Boston startup sought locals at the
same money. The result: plenty of applicants -- and a lot of
questions...[snip]
[Conclusion:]
What if other companies begin taking the same approach -- offering
Indian-style wages to American workers? On the positive site, we could
begin to solve our job-creation problems. But on the negative side,
America's standard of living would inevitably decline. There's only one
way to find out for sure how it all might shake out, and that is for
other executives to replicate Jon's experiment. The results could be
quite interesting.


http://businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/dec2003/sb2003122_8887.htm


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