[misc.consumers.frugal-living] Re: Jobs Going Overseas
Gene Wirchenko
From: cornu...@aol.comjunkblok (Elaine Jackson)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.frugal-living
>> Watched some tv coverage about a Canadian accountant who is
shipping some his work to Uganda.
It costs him 20 bucks an hour for some accounting functions in Canada. By
electronically sending the documentation to Uganda he gets it done for one
dollar an hour by people with university degrees.
Cheers,
Lech <<
When I was a teenager, there were some explicit directions on life-saving
for swimmers. The first rule was surprising to us young idealists: *never*
swim out to save a person your own size or larger without a life-preserver,
because a large percentage of panicked, drowning people will use the rescuer as
a flotation device, and they will hold the rescuer's whole body under water to
raise themselves. It stops working after the rescuer drowns, of course.
So we have U.S/Canada business managers sending away the jobs that would
keep their neighbors employed and their own nation solvent - because after all,
there's a profit to be made, briefly, until the whole economy begins to drown,
and these oh-so-clever guys try to use each other as economic flotation devices.
The truly rich, of course, are already using the whole mass of us as a
flotation device.
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