Flow My Thoughts, The IT Professor Said

Bring Back My Workplace To Me

http://networking.ittoolbox.com/news/dispnews.asp?i=103238

Article discussing overseas outsourcing trends in IT, explaining the rationale behind it. Shows how a specific locality [the Kansas City area] is affected by this development, which is beginning to spawn a backlash. Computer science enrollments are sharply down at local universities, leading to a fear of atrophied technical skills in the USA -- which begs the question: how can the skills be maintained if all the jobs are outside the country?

Makes the suggestion that the "middle class" is beginning to fight back, and instantiates the unsustainability of the developing USA pattern where there are a few rich stockholders at the top, a mass of low-paid service personnel at the bottom, and nothing in between. Yet clearly this is exactly the direction in which North American employment is heading, and any of the proposed cures thus far specified for this problem appears worse than the disease.

Perhaps we all should learn to like flipping burgers and cleaning toilets -- if nothing else, this might help solve the USA's illegal immigrant problem, as people start competing for the 'jobs nobody wants'.