The Unstoppable Shift of IT Jobs Overseas 1084
514x0r writes "The spectre in the back of many of our minds is that in a few years we may be replaced by an underpaid programmer in India. Newsforge.com is currently running an article about why this is unstoppable, that actually ends on a positive note...sort of." Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN.
Green mustache? (Score:4, Funny)
Ok, that's just hilarious.
Fine (Score:2, Funny)
Wonderful (Score:3, Funny)
14 weeks of unemployment left. *sigh*
30 or 40 years ago? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah those 7 guys were real assholes.
speaking of job creation and destruciton... (Score:2, Funny)
Good career choice (Score:3, Funny)
I'm sure glad I decided to become an Indian robot designer instead of a fireman!
Re:Exporting of Jobs (Score:5, Funny)
Yeh! He's arrogant and even though everyone wants his products, they're too expensive!
I'm all for the exporting of Jobs too!
Oh... *jobs*...
Re:Advocates of freedom don't advocate this. (Score:5, Funny)
I, for one, do emphatically support people who want to screw me.
Re:Optimisim? (Score:3, Funny)
Does anyone notice... (Score:3, Funny)
How amusing it is that an article about jobs moving overseas is posted by a guy named "514x0r?" It seems that the reason is given before the actual problem is stated...
Re:Exporting of Jobs (Score:4, Funny)
I too was thinking about building a floating platform off the cost. The rent would be cheap and I could commute to san jose by speed boat. Oh wait, thats a stupid idea.
Re:Bad? (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, I don't have any clothes made in Thailand, China, or Indonesia. And, while we're on about it, those should be taxed, too.
I don't want to get too much on a soap box, but this entire article pisses me off. It's just the warbling of a disenfranchised or compeltely turned-off generation. "We can't possibly do anything as a society to better things, it's too hard." Whiner.
I know this post is just trying to respond to an apparent hypocricy in another post, but it's about time that this angry, "we-can't-do-anything-but-complain" generation just grew the hell up. I'm not a hypocrite, and the only reason you assume that all his clothes are made in Thailand is because it's become nearly impossible to buy clothes from workers who aren't exploited.
And let's be very clear here... the fact that it's nearly impossible to survive in this freaky economy-as-it-stands without buying something made from sweat shop, oppressed, or just plain slave labor is the problem in the first place.
So here's another smiley-faced ad hominem attack just for you, but it's not as guileful: go f*ck yourself.
Jake
Re:Learn how to sell (Score:5, Funny)
As a slashdot nerd, I think I would rather take the mechanical pencil out of my pocket protector, remove my glasses, poke myself in the eye with the mechanical pencil, and then put my glasses back on.