"Why would a company pay someone $80K a year when they can get the same production for $10K?"
The thing these nimnods haven't figured out is that they are transferring their Intellectual Property over there. They are handing over the Crown Jewels to a bunch of people who will go work somewhere else or may steal the IP and sell it to someone. This has happened with several other companies and the way the law is over there, no one ever seems to get punished. Plus, once they have sold it, it's gone forever.
Or suppose it doesn't get hijacked and sold to someone else. The people who are working for Google over there and being trained in the technology can go start their own company, using the proprietary, patented technology to become Google's competition.
This seems so obvious to me. Am I the only one that thinks this?
Good point. I think the solution is when an employee leaves a company, he should be whacked. Wouldn't want a Siebel to compete with an Oracle now, would we?