Competition is generally regarded as a good thing. When these people stay in the USA, they generally depress wages and send all the money they earn back to their home countries anyway, which does the rest of the US economy no good at all. Really I'm not sure we should even have any sort of H1-B program at all.
When you don't insource the jobs, you outsource them. If you don't import the workers, the jobs will be sent out. Then the other workers will stay away, not paying US taxes, and keeping the "intelligence" they gain for themselves, to eventually overtake the US. If the work is going to Bob in Elbonia, it's better to import Bob for the job, than export the job to Elbonia and have Bob do it there.
That doesn't work well for many things because the reason these workers are so cheap is their domestic markets are poor and have poor infrastructure. By the time you've changed that you've built the place up enough to have a domestic market services those nations for these workers and it wouldn't make sense to send them over here. We on the other hand are the wealthiest nation in the world and have the manufacturing and technical knowledge to produce everything we need, plenty of bodies to fill the roles, a
They are when you are talking about connectivity back to where the consumers are in the US. Latency on a connection to India/China is terrible and will always be terrible because physics. And Detroit doesn't have a good enough infrastructure and connectivity to support most technical operations. Also, in India the major cities are worse than Detroit particularly in the parts where you'd save anything moving your tech operations. China actually has parts which are far superior to anything you find in the US but again the costs are higher in those parts and that pesky physics problem.
Operations run out of India and China will always be limited to a subset of services so long as their purpose is to service the US market, their domestic markets are another story.
They are when you are talking about connectivity back to where the consumers are in the US.
How do you mean? I've worked for a variety of international companies, and connections to the consumers are always good. Yes, sometimes you have to use Google Drive, or One Drive, or some other cloud file service that's replicated around the world, but two people editing the same file at the same time on opposite sides of the world is trivial in India, China, and even Detroit.
"How do you mean? I've worked for a variety of international companies, and connections to the consumers are always good. Yes, sometimes you have to use Google Drive, or One Drive, or some other cloud file service that's replicated around the world, but two people editing the same file at the same time on opposite sides of the world is trivial in India, China, and even Detroit." That depends on the filetype actually. But I'm going to assume you mean text and especially code. That is a task that is suited to
Google cache is in every country in the world. If you don't like the local performance, you can buy your own Google cache appliance. Bandwidth to China is not "low". You are asserting technical problems that don't exist to mask political problems. I currently work for a company with offices in China and India. Local Internet is not that bad.
Accents is an issue. Though, my biggest problem with foreign workers is they over-estimate their grasp of English. ESL is misunderstood. In India, they are coac
"Netflix enters every market with local servers, and as such, the streaming is fast, even in a place like China" No kidding, they do that because they have to. A Google cache appliance isn't going to help with anything but browsing the web... I'm not really sure The only way it makes sense with Netflix or most US industry to open up shop in India or China closing up shop in the US if they were opening shop to sell to Indians/Chinese. It would not work for Netflix to stream to the US from China because there
Yes. They learned that if they don't have their own CDN with great local peering already, Comcast will shut down their links and charge them money to get to their customers. After learning 3rd world extortion techniques in the US, they don't open shop anywhere until they've defended against those tactics.
A Google cache appliance isn't going to help with anything but browsing the web..
Which is most of what the users in an office do.
I'm not really sure The only way it makes sense with Netflix or most US industry to open up shop in India or China closing up shop in the US if they were opening shop to sell to Indians/Chinese.
Wal-Mart has large offices in China (I've been to one). And aren't big on selling to Chinese. Can you figure that one out?
It would not work for Netflix to stream to the US from China because there is too much latency the pipes between the two nations aren't fat enough to carry that massive load of traffic.
Latency is irrelevant to streami
You had mail, but the super-user read it, and deleted it!
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If the work is going to Bob in Elbonia, it's better to import Bob for the job, than export the job to Elbonia and have Bob do it there.
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Operations run out of India and China will always be limited to a subset of services so long as their purpose is to service the US market, their domestic markets are another story.
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They are when you are talking about connectivity back to where the consumers are in the US.
How do you mean? I've worked for a variety of international companies, and connections to the consumers are always good. Yes, sometimes you have to use Google Drive, or One Drive, or some other cloud file service that's replicated around the world, but two people editing the same file at the same time on opposite sides of the world is trivial in India, China, and even Detroit.
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That depends on the filetype actually. But I'm going to assume you mean text and especially code. That is a task that is suited to
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Accents is an issue. Though, my biggest problem with foreign workers is they over-estimate their grasp of English. ESL is misunderstood. In India, they are coac
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No kidding, they do that because they have to. A Google cache appliance isn't going to help with anything but browsing the web... I'm not really sure The only way it makes sense with Netflix or most US industry to open up shop in India or China closing up shop in the US if they were opening shop to sell to Indians/Chinese. It would not work for Netflix to stream to the US from China because there
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No kidding, they do that because they have to.
Yes. They learned that if they don't have their own CDN with great local peering already, Comcast will shut down their links and charge them money to get to their customers. After learning 3rd world extortion techniques in the US, they don't open shop anywhere until they've defended against those tactics.
A Google cache appliance isn't going to help with anything but browsing the web..
Which is most of what the users in an office do.
I'm not really sure The only way it makes sense with Netflix or most US industry to open up shop in India or China closing up shop in the US if they were opening shop to sell to Indians/Chinese.
Wal-Mart has large offices in China (I've been to one). And aren't big on selling to Chinese. Can you figure that one out?
It would not work for Netflix to stream to the US from China because there is too much latency the pipes between the two nations aren't fat enough to carry that massive load of traffic.
Latency is irrelevant to streami