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A lot of the offshoring in software development is going to Eastern Europe now. malaysia is another country, anywhere engineers are cheap. It's not that Americans don't have the skills, we just aren't the right price.
All the politicians say they want to stop offshoring, (BO sure did when he was trying to get elected the first time) they won't/can't. But they all take the dollars from the corporations that send the jobs away don't they?
A lot of the offshoring in software development is going to Eastern Europe now. malaysia is another country, anywhere engineers are cheap. It's not that Americans don't have the skills, we just aren't the right price.
Americans are losing the skills. No entry-level jobs to provide experience and filter out the unsuitable. But that Q3 balance sheet showed massive savings and hey, companies aren't about making stuff and serving customers, they're about making the stockholders happy, amirite?
A lot of the offshoring in software development is going to Eastern Europe now. malaysia is another country, anywhere engineers are cheap. It's not that Americans don't have the skills, we just aren't the right price.
All the politicians say they want to stop offshoring, (BO sure did when he was trying to get elected the first time) they won't/can't. But they all take the dollars from the corporations that send the jobs away don't they?
Part of me says that it is a good thing to offload routine programming work and use the freed up time to let engineers to innovate but I am not sure that is what they are doing.
Does any of his clothing line come from India? Probably doesn't want to mess up his business too much....
indeed.
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