A real outsourcing story
Prosperity in one country is to the detriment of another. And vice versa. Perhaps outsourcing will activate our consumerist-driven American lives and make us realize that what we do here can be done cheaper in India. Here's one true story about a typesetting/textbook layout company who folded and couldn't compete with India.
The best point I think he makes at the end is how Iowa was once the "outsourcing" printing location for publishers in New York. The printers could do it cheaper in Iowa and telegraphs and trains made it possible. The same is happening now, only jobs in Iowa are going to India.
posted by Anonymous @ 6/08/2007 01:25:00 PM
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