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To: epicure who wrote (8664)3/18/2004 12:04:01 PM
From: tsigprofit  Read Replies (1) of 20773
 
X, I understand what you are saying. I used to think like this, but you do not understand the real marketplace I am talking about.

The engineers and IT people do not suck. These are the people with the best skills. But, they cannot compete when they make 50-80K per year against 8-12K in India.

Let me ask you this. How much does the typcial teacher make in the US? I'd say around 45-55K with benefits. We could import tens of thousand of English speaking teachers from India. These would have comparable or superior educations to the teachers in the US.

What if I told you we could do this, and pay them 10K per year. Or 15K?

What would you think of that?

Would it be protectionist if the teacher's union resisted a wholesale displacement of their long-time workers?

Do you think only the teachers that "suck" would be displaced? Don't kid yourself. Many teachers here have only teaching degrees. What if we import teachers with math and science degrees from India also? Probably 95% of these would have more knowledge than the US teachers, and would
be willing to work at about a quarter of the salary.

I used to think like you do now. The US has never had a free market. It is wrong to experiement with tens of thousands of professionals here - all in the name of avoiding "protectionism"
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