>Well, there you have it. The offshoring industry's new mantra to spin their selling-out of Americans. Americans are too stupid to hold technical jobs.
This mantra is a lie in more ways that one. Yes the end employee in Inda may make that much, but the service bureau is not passing those saving on. They are basically just laying in a low bid a 20% below everyone else. The savings realized aren't all that tremendous.
What is the answer? One thing is the days of casually sharing technical info are over. If I figure something out, it remains proprietary and people will have to pay to learn about it.
Amen! My primary defense against this onslaught of unemployment is to develop my own application on my own time, which I'm almost ready to begin selling.