Wipro's Azim Premji - 'The man who wants to take your jobs'

[Derek Martin]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:00:23PM +0900, Derek Martin wrote:
> If you believe in the free market system, then maybe your response to
> this is, "as it should be."  

Except, as I forgot to mention, that it isn't really free.  These
foriegn workers normally can't afford to attend American universities
to obtain their skills.  American taxpayers, in many cases, are paying
for them.  This is a travesty.  In far more cases, the Indian
government (or the Chinese govt., etc.) is doing it.  The obtaining of
their skillset is much cheaper to them than ours.  They can afford to
work for much less, and still have a much better lifestyle than they
would otherwise.  That makes it virtually impossible for us to
compete...

I'm no fan of protectionism, but I do believe that until the world
economy eventually does equalize in a hundred years or so, some amount
of protectionism is necessary, in order to make the transition more
smooth for everyone involved.

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