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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (14096)	10/2/2003 9:22:19 AM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

but in practice it costs 30K/year to hire indian resources from the consulting firms offshore like Satyam. i would not use consulting firms as a reference point. do you really think HP and Dell are paying people in India 30K on average? the big firms will of course set up their own shops overseas and pay the going rates, which i expect are MUCH MUCH below 30K. there are already 2 MILLION engineers in India. this is important because it is the large firms that are exporting the most jobs right now (our top export!), and they of course have the wherewithal to set up locally. in general, we can expect india to have BETTER engineers than the US over time, because they have much greater value for education than fat, lazy Americans. their top universities are MUCH MUCH harder to get into than top US universities. probably a couple orders of magnitude harder. same goes for China. in my own experience, it is obvious that the average Indian tech support person is already VASTLY SUPERIOR, in intelligence and manners, to his slacker American counterpart.