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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
I don't have a problem with people in India getting better work. Just because someone was born within the magic lines of Canada doesn't mean they deserve a livelihood more than someone in India.
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That's great for the people of India, but in the meantime the wages and quality-of-life for someone over here is negatively affected. We all want people around the world to elevate their standard of living, but there's a negative cost to all this outsourcing. Look at the sacrifice that a worker in the manufacturing industry in Ohio or Michigan made for China's rise. How much of a reduction in wages and standard of living for your family would you personally sacrifice?
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As India progresses, wages will climb, and hopefully one day global competition will be more evenly priced as there is opportunity for more people to earn a good wage and live a good life.
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Wages will climb in India, but when you have people from a country of over 1B getting access to the international market, the overall cost of labor will go down considerably. Great for the bottom line, probably not so great for the average employee here or anywhere else that's not India.
In my industry, I've had my fair share of working with Indian companies to know that the game over there is quantity, not quality. They have 5 guys working on a project, and if you have an issue, their solution is to throw 5 more guys at it, because finding more guys in India is never a problem. But in the end, you realize you should've paid for the 1 guy who knows what he's doing. Quality and consistency is one of the few things we here in Canada can offer on the international market. Once you erode that too, you might as well ship the whole thing over.