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Originally Posted by Rodney
No, my skills are fine. I've got the same edge I've ever had, and more. But employers are increasingly doing as much hiring as possible overseas. This is not an opinion, this is fact as observed by me personally, as told to me by hiring managers, by friends who tell me why there are no openings at their companies despite rising profits. Thing is, much of what is done overseas isn't done all that well. But it's done so cheaply that they can be made to rework it two, three times and still be cheaper.
Yes, they can be employed more cheaply. Why not? There's no social security to pay, no pollution controls or very few, few employee safety rules and regs -- all the props of a civilized society. Take those away, and you can get people very cheap indeed. And eventually, that's what we'll have here -- a society of people scrambling for whatever work they can, at whatever price, in a society where they are completely on their own. Might seem like paradise -- to those who've already got.
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Please take a broader view of this issue. For example, think about the garment industry. At one time in history almost all cloths purchased in this country were made in this country. Men, women and children were paid extreme low wages. Over time we adopted child labor laws because we felt it was wrong to abuse children in the work place and we felt it more important that children became educated. Also, changes occured for American men and women - they became moore productive - and their labor became more valuable - they got paid more - garment jobs got exported.
Now apply that trend to your industry. Programming billions of lines of code has become like making shirts, hasn't it? Isn't logical that those jobs go overseas to lower skilled, lower paid programmers?
If we used our logic with the garment industry - you would have protected all those jobs - right? So instead of men and women gaining new more valued skills, we would still be like in the early 1900's. Thanks but no thanks, I say we embrace change and keep moving forward. Ship the old jobs overseas, and give us the new ones.