Uh dude. I went to your red highligted link in your reply #206 and didn't see the above quote, when I went to that link.
All I read was a Milwaukee Journal review of a Toyota truck.
Hey you can buy any truck you want, that's the American way.
What I can't understand is your objection to American business owners trying to cut costs especially when the resulting profits stay here, while the profit from your buying a Toyota truck went to Tokyo.
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What I object to is working in the IT industry as a software engineer, and training Indian H1-Bs to do my job so that they can go back to Bangalore and replicate what I'm doing here.
The IT industry isn't concerned with quality. They're concerned with inventing low hold times ("Sure, we can complete that six month project in two weeks!") which temporarily maximizes the bottom line. If the Indians produce crappy products, the company will just release a patch to fix any customer complaints in a point revision ("Oh, It's broken in 1.0? We'll fix that for you in 1.1... Now let's discuss how much we'll charge you for 1.1."). Oftentimes, there's no competition whatsoever for an identical product. Merging technologies is a design process that can't be bought off the shelf like a car. Therefore, the IT industry gets by on charging outrageous sums to fix it's own mistakes in products that it's customers have bought into for the long term. It's a win/win scenario to produce crap, and now it's a win/win/win scenario that they can pay little Indian baboos a handful of peanuts to do it. If an automaker produces a crappy car -- an Chrysler Aries "K-car", for example -- consumers will just go buy a Honda Accord.
I prefer quality. That's why I bought a Toyota. I am pleased that some factory workers in Indiana got paid from the money I spent.
Your assertation that "I heard this all before in the 1980s when Japan was going to take over America" does not apply to the current IT industry moving abroad.