time and effort into learning to program, some with years and years of
experience are being shucked by American companies for cheap overseas labor.
Training American Indians, Mexicans, Canadians or anyone else closer to America
will not address that fact. IBM, the big iron of the tech world has dropped
people with 20 years experience with them to move to India. Made in America
means nothing to these people, only the bottom line.
Well, here's a bottom line. A few years down the road there will be less
American programmers for lack of work. Less college classes on programming for
lack of end results (i.e. work). Less American anything in software because it's
all been shipped off to other countries to be done. When we're behind every
other country in the world tech wise because we've shipped it all out, when
we're behind every other country production wise because we've shipped it all
out (Levi is a perfect example), then where will we be? Another creaking
dinosaur like Russia? A wannabe power remembering our days on top? We used to
drain the top tech people from other countries. Now we're sending them away.
I fear for our future. I fear for what America is doing to itself.
Penny wise, pound foolish is an understatement here. A penny saved today and a
nation lost tomorrow. But then again, that's my take on it.
> I'm not sure where this will lead, but here is an initiative I think
> deserves serious consideration.
>
> I'm contemplating moving my own business to this reservation:
> http://www.alabama-coushatta.com/
>
> The tentative plan is to hire on and train some of the younger tribe
> members as web applications developers and do the work remotely on the
> reservation, while sending sales people to find work for them in the
> larger markets throughout the US.
>
> Here are my pros and con's as compared to hiring out to India (with
> the assumption that the remote software development business model
> works).
>
> PRO:
>
> 1) The money stays in the US and benefits some of our most
> economically depressed citizens. Business trips when desirable are
> also less expensive.
>
> 2) American Indians by and large speak English rather than
> English-ASL, which will mitigate communication gaps and errors in
> translation.
>
> 3) The US Government offers financial assistance in the form of grants
> and I believe some loans to minority businesses.
>
> CON:
>
> 1) American Indian workers are probably still slightly more expensive
> than workers on the Indian sub-continent.
>
> 2) American Indian workers will likely require more training. I'm
> banking on their being eager learners. :)
>
> 3) Some reservations may not have pre-existing infrastructure to make
> remote networking easy.
>
> I'm not saying it's a complete solution to anyone's problems. I do
> think the idea deserves attention, possibly even legislative
> attention.
>
> s. isaac dealey 972-490-6624
>
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>
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>
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>
> > I'm voting for whoever can bring jobs back to America.
> > http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/10/04/india.jobs.reut
> > /index.html
>
> > --
> > Michael Dinowitz
> > Finding technical solutions to the problems you didn't
> > know you had yet
> >
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