Hey, if India has better engineering programs and more competent workers whose fault is that? Our kids are too busy learning diversity to become engineers.
But on the plus side, we do have a very well trained population of Nintendo players....
No. Their parents are being thrown out of professional level engineering jobs that are being handed over to a bunch of third world wage slaves. And they're sending their kids to law school, where the real money is.
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BSME 1960 Univ of Colorado
You're offering a false premise. We have plenty of competent workers with great track records. They have been very productive and have produced very high quality products. The corporate whiz kids are focusing on improving next quarter results. With slowing sales, the only way to improve profits is to cut expenses. They can put a short term band aid on their bottom line by hiring cheap foreign labor.
The shift to cheap foreign labor is at the starting point in the cycle. It remains to be seen if those cheap foreign workers can continue to maintain the quality and productivity of the American workers they have displaced. Likewise, we'll see if they have the same level of drive and creativity. Can they manage to get past the language, cultural and timezone barriers to be an effective and responsive development team for businesses whose customers are still primarily in the U.S. ?