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eventually 2 bad things happen to that company's bottom line:

1. Quality suffers, and so does market share.
2. The company loses its core competence to produce remarkable, innovative new products.



I don't agree with this at all.

1) Did you know that India has something like 5 of the 7 companies in the world that are rated 5 star programming sites? They actually produce BETTER code, and in a SHORTER time, for LESS money. This, in turn, improves quality, and you can employ more people for QA, thus finding bugs earlier, prior to release.

2) When the companies saves money by outsourcing the mundane tasks, it allows them to employ more highly skills Americans as managers, and product developement personel. This causes MORE innovation, because people are not bogged down making sure their last idea is produced, since that was outsourced. They innovate, and move on, this is the exact position I've been in for over 5 years now as a software designer.

Now, I am not 100% for outsourcing everything, but this is a standard product of growth. Every market experiences it at one point or another, as the country developers further and further into the high tech arena. I'd much rather design cool stuff all day, than have to sit and code something someone else designed.

When it happened to farmers, everyone [censored], but we were better in the end.

When it happened to autoworkers, everyone [censored], but we were better in the end.

Now its happening to IT, and everyones bitching, but we'll be better in the end.

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