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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 07:02 AM Original message |
Rising wages forcing companies to look beyond India |
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Earth_First (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 07:35 AM Response to Original message |
1. At least they're being honest about it this time: your wages affect outsourcing. |
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qwlauren35 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 09:00 AM Response to Original message |
2. This COULD get interesting... |
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Bassic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 09:29 AM Response to Original message |
3. Yes, we can't accept the failure |
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magellan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 09:35 AM Response to Original message |
4. See, here's the little problem with free-market outsourcing |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 09:42 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Problem for who? |
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magellan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 10:00 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. I think we can agree that this is bad for actual humans |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 10:27 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Is there any other kind of globalization? |
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magellan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 10:33 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I don't have the answers |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 10:50 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Was that ever the point? |
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magellan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 11:13 AM Response to Reply #14 |
21. Only when unregulated |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 11:13 AM Response to Reply #14 |
22. GIVE ME A F***ING BREAK |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 12:47 PM Response to Reply #22 |
27. Damn Straight! n/t |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 02:08 PM Response to Reply #22 |
29. Did I say something in opposition to that? |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 05:06 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. YES |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 07:36 PM Response to Reply #30 |
37. That's not what I was trying to say |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 10:04 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. OK then |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 11:12 AM Response to Reply #12 |
19. One place we could start is to stop calling it a "free market" and identify |
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magellan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 11:26 AM Response to Reply #19 |
26. True |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 05:10 PM Response to Reply #19 |
31. THANK YOU |
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magellan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 07:06 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. Exactly. And when the latest slaves start asking for more money |
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Kelly Rupert (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 10:56 AM Response to Reply #4 |
15. That is exactly the argument that pro-globalization neoliberals make |
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magellan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 11:05 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. It does harm the locals when those jobs move on to another country |
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Kelly Rupert (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 11:09 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. If the jobs are moving on, |
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magellan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 11:23 AM Response to Reply #18 |
23. Who said it has no benefits? |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 11:24 AM Response to Reply #18 |
24. Have you been living under a rock for the last 15 years? |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 07:15 PM Response to Reply #18 |
36. That's not true... |
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meow2u3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 11:07 AM Response to Reply #4 |
17. Soon they'll be hiring terrorists |
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Nederland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 05:15 PM Response to Reply #4 |
32. Why are rising wages a problem? |
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magellan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 06:49 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Because it doesn't last |
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LiberalEsto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 09:39 AM Response to Original message |
5. Gee. What a piddy. |
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mindfulNJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 09:39 AM Response to Original message |
6. They're still looking for |
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LiberalEsto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 10:37 AM Response to Reply #6 |
13. prisons nt |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 09:49 AM Response to Original message |
8. Uh oh, they're getting paid too much.... |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 10:14 AM Response to Original message |
10. This raises an interesting paradox of the Free Market Pirates -- Marx meets WalMart |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 11:13 AM Response to Reply #10 |
20. That's exactly right, and |
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bleedingheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 11:25 AM Response to Reply #10 |
25. do you find the whole doing business with Red China as funny as I do? |
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The Anti-Neo Con (402 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
28. Africa is the next slave labor pool. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 10:11 PM Response to Reply #28 |
39. African immigrants are already the majority of staff in |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 07:08 PM Response to Original message |
35. "Companies force workers to settle for Indian wages." |
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rockymountaindem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
40. The race to the bottom continues, eh Tom Friedman? Let me put on his hat for a minute |
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