Should we all just move to India or China? What could be a reasonable career choice today that is not likely to be outsourced in the near future? (CEO I guess)

and to quote from the wired article:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.02/india.html?pg=4&topic=&topic_set=
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" "But isn't part of this country's vitality its ability to make these kinds of changes?" I counter. "We've done it before - going from farm to factory, from factory to knowledge work, and from knowledge work to whatever's next." ..."I'd like to know where you go from knowledge."
...I offer the standard defense of globalization and free trade - that they disrupt in the short term but enrich over time. "
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Everybody is talking about this, but nobody seems to have an idea about something good, some kind of improvement that could come next, if there is anything. Is it only corporations that will profit? Any chance of "enrich over time"?

Well, in Bangalore at least I could get consistently good dosa.

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Originally posted by hmmmm:
Should we all just move to India or China? What could be a reasonable career choice today that is not likely to be outsourced in the near future? (CEO I guess)

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INS agent. Are they still called INS?

kerplunk

Don't know... I've seen som of the fruits of outsourcing around here. Workers in the USA shouting at companies closing plants in Texas and setting them up in Tijuana. Soon after, some of those went away to India, Guatemala. Leaving many jobless people and ecological problems.

And I'm seeing it close again with some acquaintances; their company has heigh-level help-desk and call center contracts for several big companies, contracts that came here from the USA. And there's always the pressure that, as soon as the people on India, China or Ukraine lose their accent, those contracts will go there, no doubt about it. They'll be paid a quarter of what they're charging here, which is >half< of what they charged in Texas.
Oh well. We can always get into manufacturing, flipping burgers or serving caramel macchiato...

Glo-Ba-Li-Za-Ti-On...

Glo(wer)
Ba(ck all you want),
(get to)
Li(ke)
Za(nax)
(Li)t(h)i(um) too.
(Soldier) On....

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John Bauman is 61 years old. ...
The invisible hand is giving him the finger. A compassionate society must somehow help its John Baumans.

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I think it's time for the U.S. government to get acquainted with the concept of social providence.

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