“What are you illustrating? That you can’t spell?”

–That was addressed to BillGod.

Everytime the subject of outsourcing came up, we were told, “Don’t worry, that’s just the grunt work. The real money making jobs will always be here. We’ll do the designing and inventing – the high value work – and send the manufacturing to those dumb foreigners.”

The people who believed that those foreigners were unable to learn were the dumb ones. Really – really dumb.

American corporations, with the help of the government, have been sabotaging the future of our country for profit.

Since our politicians are bought and paid for by big corporations, where do we go for a remedy?

Re: original article — software development is to a substantial extent a creative task too.

Re: dorpus — they may be print-media ads without any actors at all. Or they might be making ads in India targeted at a market segment IN INDIA, rather than at the domestic market. Given what you said about various countries being unlikely to be able to make ads as appealing to a market in another country as that other country, it makes sense to have separate ad operations in each country that is a significant market for your products, each producing the ads targeted at the regional market where it’s located.

Re: Whistling — Outsourcing “just the grunt work” is still devastating. It means the domestic entry-level jobs disappear and you can’t work your way up to the top anymore. Upward mobility is gone. Capitalism changes to feudalism and aristocracy, of a peculiar 21st-century variety. To get the top paying jobs (and increasingly, any job at all) means getting expensive Harvard MBAs and being in the right fraternities and good-old-boys’-clubs (and later, golf clubs), which in turn means your father had to have had one of those top paying jobs before you => hereditary aristocracy sneaks back in through the back door.

A war was fought to get rid of the last one and thousands of people died.

As for where we go for a remedy — the polling booth, to see if we can actually elect in 2008 politicians that represent we, the people rather than the rich old white men special interest group. Failing that, the gun shop. There’s a reason for that second amendment; in case that war ever needed to be fought again. If things keep on the way they are, either the next Black Fooday and Depression or else the Second Civil War is looming in the next decade or so, and depending, possibly World War III. (The last Depression helped spark World War II, and the “wrong” winners in the Second Civil War would probably mean the rest of the world intervening — countries allying to stamp out an outbreak of fascism, but not in Germany this time. Of course, the last time that happened a couple of cities got nuked. How many this time, and this time with megaton weapons instead of kiloton? The next decade is perilous. We must all tread carefully, and be prepared to act precipitously but only if necessary; all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing; however, rash action itself causes evils.)