http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/dec2003/sb2003122_8887.htm
Article describing an innovative approach to outshoring: hire programmers in the USA and pay them Indian/Russian-level wages. The company which tried this got deluged with applications from out-of-work programmers who were more than willing to take half-a-loaf, and all of the complexities with remote dealing went out the window.
Whether this will work more generally is open to debate, and it would seem to have a depressing effect on the standard of living in the USA [not as depressing as being unemployed, of course]. But one of the tenets of the global economy is global competition, and it may well be that we have here an ebbing tide which lowers all boats.
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Posted by: amoxil at November 14, 2004 02:51 PM