Losing jobs overseas

[Testosterone boy]

Perhaps things wouldn't be so slanted if other countries would stop artificially lowering the value of thier money.

It's not exactly a "Free Market" when India and China are holding down their money.

India and China....I preferred having close relationships with Europe.


India and China would be easier puppets for puppeteers to control.

 

[atlantabiolab]

The title of the thread says enough.....Losing Jobs Overseas.


Gee....I suspect that losing millions of jobs overseas could indeed result in an economy much like..............OURS.

How about that?

How bout this: how come we have not degraded as an economy, since 1945? We have been losing jobs forever, there is no time in our history where we remained static.

You only focus on the minutia of "jobs lost", but do not realize that there are jobs being created, that we are constricting from an overinflated IT market (those 100,000 dollar a year computer programmer jobs were not really worth 100,000 dollars), and that there have always been jobs leaving the US. You seem to think that the specific job type is the key.

Do I believe that everything is perfect? Hell no! This new millenia socialist global village has the potential to fuck everything up royally. I never underestimate the stupidity of people.

 

[bigschweeler]

There has to be some kind of medium here as the benefit of outsourcing jobs is that companies can find cheap labour and keep the cost of their products and services down. Keeping some of those lower paying jobs here will cause companies to pass the increased cost of labour on to the consumers and there goes inflation.

 

[Testosterone boy]

There has to be some kind of medium here as the benefit of outsourcing jobs is that companies can find cheap labour and keep the cost of their products and services down. Keeping some of those lower paying jobs here will cause companies to pass the increased cost of labour on to the consumers and there goes inflation.

Yea.....I don't know how we survived without China and India to keep our costs down.

It has allowed our CEOs to realize salaries/bonuses in excess on 100 million dollars/year. Bully.


Meanwhile my cousin with a masters from MIT goes on his third year of looking for a good job. He used to be about the hottest property around.

 

[Apöllo]

I wonder . . . is shipping jobs overseas more about cutting costs to consumers or is it about increasing that bottom line?

 

[Testosterone boy]

I can understand why companies ship jobs to India etc.



My million dollar question is.......why do we give them major tax incentives to do so?

 

[Apöllo]

I read that India wants to impose a tax on "global profits" of all foriegn cos. that use their workforce. Even though this hasn't passed, it already started to scare some into freezing the shipping of jobs.

Tboy, I think its sad that whether we give them tax credits or not, these companies still end up skipping out on paying employee taxes.

 

[EnderJE]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Losing jobs overseas

There is NO WAY stuff would come back with flaws if it was properly spec'ed out in the first place and you're applying the Rational Unified Process and test cases to validate the finished work.

Personally, I find this statement funny because it assumes that:
a) there is no chance of scope creep after signoff
b) board committed dates can be pushed
c) test cases catch all possible permutations of problems

 

[EnderJE]

I wonder . . . is shipping jobs overseas more about cutting costs to consumers or is it about increasing that bottom line?

Bottom line. I thought cutting prices for consumers were just "corrections".

 

[Sebby]

Don't think that Americans are the only ones who feel this. Ice barren Canada has this same problem.