ARE YOU NUTS!!!!!
MOVE TO INDIA!!!!!
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they don't have a good quality of life as a result.
India is an IT sweatshop
sweatshop? lol well I wouldn`t blame anyone if he wanted to go to such a "sweatshop".
ECONOMICTIMES.COMThat was really good news, you moving to India, I mean.
But I don't see why you should feel so depressed about it! India, whether you believe it or not, is the best that can happen to a US techie 
No mate, I am not joking. I know, to the average American, India conjures up images of pot-hole filled freeways, unconcerned cattle and pedestrians mixing with unruly traffic, heat, dust, snakes and diseases. I don't blame you. Every US network and newspaper has flown in its star reporters to Bangalore, India's Silicon Valley . And reporters, especially the ones from America, know how to zoom in on the most despicable scenes! Sadly, those reports
There is more to India, brother.
Haven't you read all those reports about unemployed US techies wanting to move to India? Losers, you thought?
I won't be exaggerating if I say techies in India enjoy a demi-god status! Yeah, unlike you American techies.
An Indian techie enjoys a lifestyle even the billionaires in America can only dream of. To start with, their salaries put them in an orbit very few can dream of. When Friedman says in his NYT column that a techie fresh out of college gets paid more than the his parent's earnings, he is not exaggerating.
And Gawd, what a life they lead! They own flashy cars and apartments. They have cooks, chauffeurs, maids, gardeners! Have you even dreamt of having a cook to get your dinner ready when you and your wife get home from your work? Have you ever dreamt of having a maid to take care of your kids? Wouldn't your wife have loved to do some gardening if she had more time?
Nah, I am not kidding, yaar (that's how we Indians address our friends. Time you picked up some Hindustani, instead of your nasal twang!) These guys can afford to have maids, chauffeur-driven cars and cooks. The techie is the Mughal among India's much written about New Economy professionals.
And after all this, they have money to save and invest. Yes, they invest. These guys with downy cheeks. They invest in apartments, property, stock markets!
You have been working for 10 years here in the mecca of capitalism. Do you own a house? Do you save enough to invest in the real estate market? Even after all that social and medical support doled out by the government.
Forget you, even your boss who prides himself as a New Economy pioneer, ask him how much money he has managed to put into his bank account after working like a dog for 15 years.
And don't think they are being paid in gold. They are paid in rupees, man. And a dollar sells for 43 rupees. So imagine what he would be doing if was being paid in dollars! His lifestyle would put even those colonial Englishmen (we call them white sahibs) and their country cousins, the IAS guys (the legacy of our colonial rule) to shame! Now imagine yourself in the shoes of an Indian techie who is paid in dollars. And do you know your dream is just waiting to happen, in India!
And the icing on the cake will be you may be sharing your villa (yes mate, villa) with the high and mighty in Bangalore -- the chief minister could be your neighbour! Now, where did you dream of having Arny as your neighbour?
Well, here's one last thing that can swing your mind. Do you know there are no terrorists in Bangalore?!
Don't you now envy that Yank couple that was thinking about moving to India?
Don't wait. Log in and get your air ticket booked now.
PS: Do you know headhunters in India are already being swamped by applications from US techies -;)
Globalisation sucks!!!! The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
Well the facts say that at least the poor get reacher where globalization in in act.
http://www.johannorberg.net/GOOD NEWS ON POVERTY: The anti-globalists insist that the poor get poorer. In other words, they keep ignoring the statistics. The World Bank has just made a revised estimate, to be published in World Development Indicators 2004, which shows what we already knew: The proportion of people living in absolute poverty (less than one dollar a day at 1993 purchasing-power parity) is lower than it has ever been before. But the new figures show even more progress than previously known. According to the revised figures, world poverty was reduced from 33% in 1981 to 18% in 2001. This means that almost 400 million people was liberated from absolute poverty in 20 years! And as we already knew, this progress has been led by the globalised East Asian countries, whereas poverty is on the increasee in the anti-globalised African countries.
Do the rich become poorer? well neither that is true. The rich gain with globalization, if it was the contrary they wouldn`t invest in foreign countries. Outsourcing of jobs ultimately benefits the US economy by lowering prices and putting more purchasing power in the hands of consumers.
http://www.adamsmithblog.org/US creates more jobs
By Dr Madsen Pirie 3 April 2004 Tax & Economy
The US economy created 308,000 jobs in March, the biggest monthly increase in 4 years, and 3 times expectations. It contrasts with the previous month's figure which was below expectation and which heightened talk of a 'jobless boom.'
