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| Authored by: Yaacov on Tuesday, April 05 2005 @ 11:12 AM CDT |
So what you're saying is... Philippinos can be trained to be code monkeys, and as such, they'll provide competition against Indian code monkeys, resulting in even better deals for evil corporate America
The development issues that others have addressed are interesting, but I'm more concerned about readers who miss the :P at the end of your post and think that your ethical argument is sound.
Competition with Filipinos may hurt our employment rate, but that doesn't make it ethical to deny them the chance for gainful employment.
We see the same flawed reasoning with farm subsidies. Western governments justify these subsidies by claiming that there would be serious unemployment in the farming sector if the subsidies were removed. That's true. But the subsidies are causing a larger poverty and unemployment problem in the developing world, and our country is far better equipped to deal with that unemployment than developing countries are.
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"an ideology is a thought—economizing device" - Moisés Naim[ Parent ]
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