It doesn't get any better than this. With all the hub-bub on off shoring and how its taking away from America jobs, here we have a project that is being taken place for an unknown American company about off shoring.... using offshore employees to do the 'dirty work'.
I personally think if most Americans knew that off shoring is the reason why their cars are so cheap, city services don't eat up more tax dollars, store bought goods are low, and so on... things you think would have nothing to do with off shoring... effect you wallet then maybe the huff and puff wouldn't be as loud.
I think American auto industry is a classic example. Buy American might sound cool, but its not when the companies take advantage of this and do not make any... and I mean ANY... INROADS TO MAKE BETTER OR CHEAPER PRODUCTS.
It was the competition form a foreign county that made the big 3 do things differently. If Americans bought American just because it was American, we would have some very lousy cars running the streets.
The connection is this: by allowing outsourcing, products are produced cheaper. If we stick to one way or one country for a product, we are stuck in a strange sort of monopoly that doesn't really NEED to do it better or cheaper.
I also want to be very specific about this claim: if there is to be a war on terrorism, we have to understand the root... the real root... of it and that is youthful men and women living in poor countries with no hope of being well off or even just ok as well as (and most importantly) having nothing to do.
Generations of this creates what is now Palestine, Siria, and other places around the globe that all of a sudden have drones of people who are willing to believe there conditions are caused by rich nations or willing to die just to be apart of something; to say something about their lives.
Most Americans may not know what it is like to feel that your worthless and live in a community of people who feel that way for generations. To not have jobs, a place to grow, a chance to reap earning off of your hard work (as I wrote before, hard work does help for your to have a better life or lifestyle, but without opportunity to turn it into something, it is pointless... why do you think people cross the border from Mexico? To take American jobs???).
The point I am making is that if most of these places, even India, did not have this outsourcing gig, there would be a population with NOTHING TO LOOSE. I bet you if Palestine had jobs and money coming into it, it would not be what it is now. Even China is cracking down on its freedom of its people because they earning more money and have a tendency to want to be free and live life to its fullest at home. You won't have Chinese terrorist I bet. Why point the finger at a rich nation when you are the rich nation? The middle class all of a sudden can get the info from anywhere and soon start pointing the finger at home. Look at Ireland; the technology boom of the 90’s and even today seems to have quieted the storm. IRA no longer armed with people willing to point to England as the problem I see…
Outsourcing helps in many ways, and should be watched but not the way it has been the past few years (it been viewed by many, especially some politicians as the evil that causes the working class to loose jobs). Outsourcing is not as evil as one may think of it, plus outsourcing isn't the solution for everything. As many companies have found out, outsourcing data across the Atlantic Ocean can cause problems with private data being lost, stolen, or just plain misunderstood by people who speak a different language. Organizational behavior when becoming global is a task in of itself; People think of time in different ways, rush becomes next week and to you its lazy but to them it is ‘why are you thinking there is no future?’ How that is run can be a business in itself and cost more than paying an employee from your own country.
A careful balance can be reached, but a balance is what is needed, especially in times like this. Outsourcing helps grow countries into the present; helps people who want to work hard get an opportunity to do so.