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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
The presentation means that the individual smart people will be taking your jobs...either here or in their native countries when those jobs eventually get outsourced...not that they will be struggling to feed the not-so-smart people. This isn't political or societal, it's demographics of individuals with their own social mobility and sheer manpower.
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If things are outsourced it will because they are willing to work for peanuts and we won't. Not because India has smarter, more educated, people than North America. There are millions of highly intelligent lower caste people with no access to education that will eek out a living at the local garbage dump looking for rotting food and eating fried rats for dinner. Demographics mean in an information world. They will have a billion people, not many of whom will get the education needed to be on the cutting edge of technology. Canada and the US have about 1/3 of a billion people, but 23% of our youth are getting university degrees. In India they have 1 Billion people, but 7% are going to university.
And thought this is purely anecdotal, I found that those that came to North America from India and studied here were some of the brightest programmers I've ever met. Those that went to university there and came here to work were some of the absolute worst. Maybe it's just the sample size, but it does leave me with doubts to the Indian education system.