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Re:More Companies Plan to Put R&D Overseas by theoj on Monday February 21, 2011 @06:51PM (#2247880)
The truth of the matter is that everything that can be outsourced will be outsourced. The idea that "brain work" would remain in the US was just a rationalization to enable the first wave of outsourcing to get underway.

In the 1980's the driving force was quality and the ones to emulate were the Japanese. Now the driving force is cost, quality is not that important, and the ones to emulate are the Chinese/Indians.

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Re:More Companies Plan to Put R&D Overseas by gamble on Monday February 21, 2011 @07:20PM (#2247975)
Exactly. The "brain work" rationalization was just a way to sell outsourcing to the middle class, enabling conservatives to break working-class political power. The next wave, well underway since the tech bubble reduced communication costs to zero, will break the middle class.
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Re:More Companies Plan to Put R&D Overseas by nitrogen on Monday February 21, 2011 @09:21PM (#2248383)
The quicker we can get the entire world to wage parity, the sooner we can stop arguing about nationality and outsourcing and get back to improving humanity.
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Re:More Companies Plan to Put R&D Overseas by theoj on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @12:19AM (#2248872)
Wage parity is a pipe dream. Each country has different social, political and educational systems that lead to uneven economic progress. You will wait a long time to get back to improving humanity.
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