Not to
stir a hornet's nest, but there you have it. Case in point. My wife is in a
40-50 bracket in earnings. She has a virtual asst in India. This virtual asst
has a MBA. Her demonstrated skills show that she at least is brighter than the
top 50% of college grads or successfully experienced people (there are a large
number of non college grads that could blow the doors off of college grads,
just trying to state this person does have more than the basics) My wife's
co pays 7/hr for the work. The virtual asst makes 3.90/hr and is HAPPY! about
it. In addition, this MBA lives at home with her sibs and parents, and shares a
bedroom.
Hmm,
what co could even hire a MBA in the states for 7/hr. I think possibly the main
thing we are against number is that there are people who expect less
(much less) for what the are capable of. (much like club building, ever
encounter capable competition that was short selling their skills?). This
coupled with the fact of showing increases in revenue as well as EBITDA/EBITA or
how ever you want to measure your end value is paramount creates a dynamite keg
that could encite a person to scream language, culture, borders along with
Michael Savage.
Oops?!?!
Mark A Patton
-----Original Message-----When you call Dell computers for tech support, especially at night, you will most likely be linked via satellite to India to one of their 4 current centers, each with ~400 employees. I wonder if being able to hire a college educated computer systems specialist for the same price that you can hire a floor sweeper in the U.S. has anything to do with it? Is it possible that labor is a commodity similar to other goods and services and is traded at a fair market price?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Al Taylor
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 10:31 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: ShopTalk: Was LDC; is, real life
Al
At 06:01 PM 7/29/2003, you wrote:
Hey you guys,
I enjoy your posts about golf clubs because you know what you are talking about. That is not the case when you talk about "exporting jobs" and inveigh against free trade. This is the kind of cr*p you hear from scurrilous politicians trying to dupe us into voting for them.
World capital is not flowing to countries with low wage rates, but is disproportionately coming here - because of our skilled labor and management, because of people like you. We benefit from free trade - in fact all participants usually benefit. Here is a good though long article on 'comparative advantage,' which explains the notion and why it is counter-intuitive:
http://internationalecon.com/v1.0/ch40/40c000.html
Here's another perspective dealing with manufacturing:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/TradeandForeignAid/BG1561.cfm
And another one dealing with the myth that the trade deficit is somehow a bad thing for us:
http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed022503a.cfm
My three cents. Get your cannons ready...I've got the garbage-can lid over my backside.
L. Hunter Kevil
- -----Original Message-----
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
- Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 2:12 PM
- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Was LDC; is, real life
- In a message dated 7/29/03 11:31:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
- But as offshore workers graduate from basic jobs to more sophisticated
- technology work, critics here wonder if there will be high-paying, high-tech
- jobs left in the United States.
- This is the major problem. We are not talking about American jobs as basket weavers moving over seas! As third world basket weavers get some money, a shack with running water and indoor plumbing and something more than a bicycle for transportation their jobs get exported to another poorer country and they get into destroying the American high tech industries!
- Just heard today on the radio that India is attracting Silicon Valley jobs! And I thought that all that could be produced there were cheap hammers, screwdrivers and one time use wrenches along with shirts that shrink in the first wash and colors that run faster than Bin Laden.
