[GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

[Don Tai]

While the discussion centers around Indian workers, please do not forget
China. China has 1.4B people and they need work as well. The Chinese
government is willing to subsidize factories that export products. These
export products are therefore much cheaper than comparable North American
made ones. Thus US and Canuck factories bite the dust. Hence Walmart stocks
a significant amount of Chinese goods.

The race to the bottom, when there is a country/state actor involved means
people here in Western countries lose companies and jobs. The issue is much
more complex than just saying it is ok for Canadian companies to find the
cheapest workers, for Canadian consumers to buy the cheapest products. What
will happen to Canadian or Western society when a vast majority of jobs
have gone to China? If you want a harmonious society, jobs are needed for
all types of people. If you export a portion of these jobs to the lowest
bidder in another country, what happens to those people? As a society we
have no answer as yet, other than "You should find a job higher up the
value chain". Such comments seem so very elitist, and lacking in compassion
for fellow Canadians.
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