Mon, 08 Dec 2003

Outsourcing Winners and Losers
The more I think about this (linked) article from the New York Times, the madder I get....

In the 80's we were told that manufacturing was going where it was cheaper, so we'd better learn to be a service economy: forget learning how to weld and build autos, you'd better get an education and learn a high tech skill like programming.

Now, apparently, coding has been reduced somewhat, at least in the eyes of this "project management guru":

It's all about innovation and productivity. As long as we maintain those two engines, we'll continue to have a very high standard of living. Out in the Bay Area there are plenty of folks who would love to create a little bit of protectionism around their I.T. jobs, but we are far better off letting a lot of those jobs go. Low-skill jobs like coding are moving offshore and what's left in their place are more advanced project management jobs.

Somebody better tell this bozo that real innovations come from the people who acutally innovate: not their managers. An MBA does not innovate in the real world: he may come up with a new way of moving money around, but that's not the same thing as designing a program (or building a bridge).

Between these imbeciles sending everything that's not nailed down to Third World pestholes where they can use slave labor to make their useless shit for practically nothing, and the thieving lawyers doing their utmost to lock any creative product in a corporate strongbox for eternity, we're going to kill the goose that laid the golden egg, economically, in this country.

Would you like a fast Fourier transform with that burger?

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