[asterisk-biz] Digium, Polycom, and Netxusa Cutting Us Out?!?

[Steve Totaro]

Chris Mason (Lists) wrote:
> Steve Totaro wrote:
>>  The role of Network Admin will be outsourced to some 3rd world 
>> country the same way as support, helpdesk, call centers, and 
>> programming are now.
>> The rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. 
> The poor in the third world labour source would be a lot poorer 
> without this work. This is the inherent hypocrisy of first world 
> countries that are willing to donate to the poor but are up in arms 
> when the same poor nations are able to compete for work.
> It is inevitable that less wealthy countries will compete against the 
> first world nations once they have education and infrastructure. The 
> only way to prevent it is to cut off technical and financial aid and 
> relegate them to abject poverty, which is probably too late now.
> One trend that may give you some comfort is the tendency of wages to 
> rise once those countries start to handle real volums of work. The 
> average salary of India's technical workers has been rising steadily.
>
Hence the move to Philippines, there will continue to be low cost labor 
supplies as these nations build up their infrastructure and qualified 
people.  I have sat in these exact meetings.  "Pakistan is facing 
sovereignty issues, India has become too expensive, let's give the 
Philippines a try for three months."

I am not engaging in hypocrisy, just looking at what I view as the true 
"Market Evolution".  Just because it is not a rosy future doesn't mean 
that it isn't the emerging reality. 

Of course, anything that threatens a person's standard of living, they 
get upset, I do not call this "Hypocrisy".  If it is, then it is 
probably the same "hypocrisy" that India's workers will feel as they get 
passed over for the bottom line, now that they are getting used to a 
certain standard of living.

Thanks,
Steve