How India is Saving Capitalism

alphakappa writes "Salon goes onsite to Chennai (Madras) in India to investigate the whole offshoring phenemenon (free daypass) and comes up with an interesting series of stories. Katharine Mieszkowski starts with a company CollabNet which creates collaboration software for teams to work together on projects from locations all over the globe, and has centers in Brisbane (CA,US) and Chennai (India) - a company that would not exist if they didn't have access to engineers from India. She makes the case that in most cases, it is the necessity to survive, rather than greed that has fed the offshoring process. As Behlendorf from CollabNet puts it - 'We saved the jobs of the people who are employed in San Francisco by hiring people here [in India],' he says. 'I don't know that we would be around as a company if we hadn't done that. What was the right thing to do, morally?'"

Re:Morally?

[Anonymous Coward]

And the executives whose job you saved thank you!

Re:The real question

[fuzzy12345]

Spend less time on slashdot?

Re:Great...

[MC_Cancer_Pants]

How India is Saving Capitalism

Isn't it a day late for april fools articles?

Coincidence

[bobthemuse]

Wow, this perfectly parallels today's Doonesbury [ucomics.com] strip. Couldn't fit better if they'd planned it.

Re:Oh please.

[lurker412]

How many of those jobs are in "manufacturing" cheeseburgers?

Re:Morally?

[meringuoid]

And why, exactly, is hiring people in other countries immoral?

It's immoral because the job of businesses is not to maximise shareholder value by increasing their cost-effectiveness - their job is to provide a welfare service to Slashdot readers who were laid off after the dot-com crash. Duh.

Re:Morally?

[GPLDAN]

Because if you start sleeping with your secretary, and it turns out she's your cousin, you are remitted to go live in Alabama.

Re:Capitalism Sux

[arudloff]

Karl Marx called.. he wants his failed idea back.

Re:Morally?

[perly-king-69]

It's about what benefits ME!

Isn't that immoral?

;-)

Re:Morally?

[wcrowe]

Fat and happy?

Fuck you, man.

Re:The Bottom Line

[Mateito]

> As many people are still wanting the wife/husband, 2.3 kids

If only we could keep the .3's from posting trolls to slashdot.

Re:Morally?

[black mariah]

LMFAO! Dude, that's the funniest shit I've read here in a while. Of course people are complaining now, being self-righteous pedants is starting to bite them in the ass. When you tell someone that the crux of your job should be done for free, they're eventually gonna take you up on the offer.

Re:No, Patriots believe Americans are better

[Adolph_Hitler]

Those people are people who don't matter. Look the stock market can support almost every American. Anyone can save up a few thousand dollars and buy stock instead of a car.