The “education crisis” myth
Ignore the media spin. Wages and working conditions — not skills — are the real reasons jobs get outsourced
http://www.salon.com/2012/01/30/the_education_crisis_myth/singleton/
In my experience our educational system is quite dysfunctional and apparently incapable of churning out people with critical thinking skills, but the article makes a very persuasive case that that reality is independent of our jobs being shipped overseas. The author seems a wee bit negative, but I am not being sarcastic, I think it is only a wee bit. Clearly it won’t take a lot for manufacturing to be cheaper in the US again, with our crashed economy, I just hope that doesn’t come at the expense of a living wage (note that in most of the country, you can still live very nicely (if debt free) off of $10 an hour, if you get full benefits) and safe working conditions.
A friend in the IT ‘biz is fond of pointing out that there is no shortage of IT people, there is a ‘shortage’ of IT people willing to work at the pay being offered by the companies complaining that there is an IT shortage.
