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To: MSI who wrote (21853)12/28/2003 5:39:32 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 793656
 
From a "Blue" Blog. "Bradford Delong."

Outsourcing Once Again
Matthew Yglesias reads Bob Herbert on "outsourcing": Matthew Yglesias: High Tech Offshoring: Bob Herbert writes on the subject of high tech offshoring. It's easy to see why this bothers many Americans -- it means that some Americans who otherwise would have had high paying jobs either have no jobs, or else lower paying jobs.

All else being equal, it would be better for more Americans to have higher paying jobs. What I don't quite see, however, is why the alternatives are supposed to be so much better. Say we changed things around and more Americans made more money, more Indians made less money, and all people everywhere had to pay somewhat more for their software. How is that really better? Because it's better for Americans? What if we sent the Marines into Bombay to rob a few banks and help close the budget deficit -- would that be better? I would say not.

Now it's not the same as restricting the offshoring of jobs, but it's not totally different either, the Indian software engineers are people too, and their interests count. Come to think of it, American software consumers have interests that count as well. So do the shareholders in...
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