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Wipro's Azim Premji - 'The man who wants to take your jobs'



Zack,

In large part, I agree with you. Its not quite that simple, but yes, 
American will suffer and the rest of the world, hopefully the 3rd 
world, will benefit. This could be a big boon for the world as a whole, 
at the cost of America's superiority. Fine, I can deal with that.

However, its important to make sure that we truly are redistributing 
the excess wealth of this country to those who need it; and rather than 
being at the expense of the average worker, the excess wealth should 
come from the overly rich and large corporations.

One way I see this working is for the government to send foreign 
minimum wage standards. For example, if American corporation Foo wants 
to out source programming to Bar, they should be required to pay Barian 
programmers xx% of the average American programmers salary, where xx 
would be reasonably large. This would have the dual effect of 
discouraging outsourcing while simultaneously benefitting the recipient 
nations of outsourcing.

Just an idea, I'm not an economist or an international trade 
specialist, so I don't know how this would affect trade laws, or how 
much outsourced programmers get paid already.

-Josh

On Mar 22, 2004, at 10:11 AM, Zack Cerza wrote:

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> On Mon March 22 2004 00:54, Robert La Ferla wrote:
>> "The point, he said, is that Americans are unduly worried. 'We are not
>> dealing with cold reasoning here,' he said, 'but with emotions of 
>> Americans
>> whose personalities changed after 9/11 and who feel threatened by 
>> anything
>> that hurts their security, their wealth and their jobs.''"
>
> I know I'm going to be flamed for this, but such is life.
>
> We live in the richest country in the world. Therefore, as workers, we 
> cost
> more than our rough equivalents in any other country.As such, this mass
> outsourcing, though not a new concept, will hurt us. It will also help 
> people
> in places like India.
>
> Maybe we'll lose some money, maybe our salaries will drop. Maybe it'll 
> be
> harder to find a job. But in India, and the next country this trend 
> moves to,
> their salaries will go up. Maybe eventually we won't be the richest 
> country
> in the world.
>
> That is, this outsourcing is an equalizer. While equalizers tend to 
> help the
> majority, the minority (us) will feel the pain. Yes, it will hurt. But 
> from
> this perspective, it should happen. This is Capitalism, folks, which I 
> hear
> (whether or not you like it) is the American Way.
>
> As for the companies that do it, however, It's plain to see that we're 
> not
> seeing lowered costs as a result of this. In fact, as customers our
> experience seems to be worsening. Think outsourced helplines, and how 
> they
> seem to be utterly clueless. But that's not the employees' fault; 
> that's
> Dell's fault, and Fleet's fault, and whoever else decides to cut 
> corners.
>
> Feel free to trample this, as it is my own train of thought and thus 
> could be
> totally wrong.
>
> - --
> Zack Cerza	<zcerza at coe.neu.edu>
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