Mike Moore says "Outsourcing brings wealth"

[Taro Toporific]

Mike Moore: Outsourcing brings wealth
National Business Review, New Zealand - 16 Sept... The same old anti-Japan speeches of the 1980s are being dusted off in the US presidential campaign to play on the real fears of workers.
Many of these made redundant from textile and manufacturing jobs had retrained for the modern economy, learning IT skills that are now under threat from highly educated, motivated competitors in India and China....
....But as a politician who knows the language of the street corner meeting, one recent TV grab featuring a South Carolina voter haunts me. A middle-aged man explained how he had lost his textile job to China, had retrained himself in IT only to lose that to India. Now, he said, he was studying real estate because "that's the one job that can't go offshore."
It's a big task trying to explain the theory of creative destruction or how infrastructural inefficiencies are a tax on every other job to an unemployed 50-year old.
And that's one reason I was New Zealand's shortest-serving prime minister. But not the only reason.

[kamome]

Mike Moore: Outsourcing brings wealth
National Business Review, New Zealand - 16 Sept

OK, I thought this was a quote from Michael Moore, the author/director. Mike Moore is a completely different person.

[Skankster]

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Outsourcing hurts many Americans big time.

Places like Canada tho are said to be quite good places to outsource.
But I think outsourcing to places like India will be short lived.
Not that I am against it but they will find that while the skillset may be there now it is cost prohibitive to pay for communication lines and to deal with people who's native language is not english... or hardly close.

Most of the jobs going to India are not.
The workers in India etc are the ELITE.
The SUPREME ELITE OF INDIA

once they get money and move on they will put the lower classes in and service will then go to shit.

I propose to use places like the Caribbean for the best return on investment.
It is my dream to create a club med call center (Japanese & English) on some Caribbean isle.

[Taro Toporific]

Mike Moore: Outsourcing brings wealth
National Business Review, New Zealand - 16 Sept

OK, I thought this was a quote from Michael Moore, the author/director. Mike Moore is a completely different person.

Gotja!

Actually I was "got" too.

Speaking getting "got" ....
Here at work, we've been burned by outsourcing software and translation (J-E) to India at least 4 or 5 times in the past 10 years.

As Stankster said, differences among Indian English, Japanese English and Western Englishes (sic) are too great except at the higher levels of Indian society. Often the problem Indian English for outsourced projects is like the jump between Japanese and Western modes of thinking]
Places like Canada tho are said to be quite good places to outsource.
But I think outsourcing to places like India will be short lived.
Not that I am against it but they will find that while the skillset may be there now it is cost prohibitive to pay for communication lines and to deal with people who's native language is not english... or hardly close.
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[GomiGirl]

Looking around my office here at "mobile-phones-r-us" inc., I can see nearly a dozen chaps brought over from India, quite a few from China, a heap of brits, quite a few locals and of course lots and lots of Scandinavians. I am the only Aussie and definitely one of the very few female engineers.

It makes for very interesting lunchtime chat. Listening to all the different accents and languages all around me everyday reminds me of Australia.