Anger at offshoring

[XMEN Gambit]

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforw ... <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Good article. And speaking as one who works in the industry being impacted by offshoring, I can say that I'm not happy about it either.<br>On the other hand, I also agree with the author that eventually we'll figure out something else to do. It's only been in the last century or so that the majority of people have come to expect employment at companies, rather than having their own businesses. <br>Necessity, as they say, is the mother of invention. Someone in the US will still have money, and inventive, entepreneurial people will figure out goods or services to trade them for it. <p></p><i></i>

[Mavicator]

"...if you had asked Americans in 1900 how they felt that almost all the farmers would lose their jobs over the coming century, they would have been just as outraged as today's workers are when they think about outsourcing. Yet Americans are still well-fed while only about 2% of the population works in agriculture."<br><br>Good point. Still, outsourcing is an unnerving situation. It's difficult to believe it will not affect the American Joe Schmoe's bank account for the worse. <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.camerasupport.com/oV/mavsigr ... <!--EZCODE IMAGE END--></p><i></i>

[XMEN Gambit]

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,13 ... <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Oh, and this one talks about the privacy dangers of having sensitive info handled overseas, where federal regs don't reach. Definitely a concern, even if it is Feinstein behind it... <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> Though I don't think I care for the way some of the proposed restrictions are phrased. <p></p><i></i>