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Re: attacking FSF [Re: Paid trolls


From: Bernd Jendrissek
Subject: Re: attacking FSF [Re: Paid trolls
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 12:43:43 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <rjr7tx23a1.fsf@sheridan.dina.kvl.dk> Per Abrahamsen
<abraham@dina.kvl.dk> wrote:
>Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>> That's not to say that offshoring does anything for the average inhabitant
>> of Bangladesh either.
>
>Mostly because Bangladesh hasn't enough of an infrastructure to make
>it a good candidate for outsourcing.  It does do a lot of good in
>India, to many more than are directly employed, namely their family,
>servants, and everyone they do business with.  Still offshore
>outsourcing is really a very small phenomena in total economic terms,
>and India has a billion people, so affecting "the average" is hard.
>Most of the economic growth of India is due to other causes.  Which is
>good, since India is soon rich enough that the outsourcing will go
>elsewhere. 

Will India soon start outsourcing the work of cleaning sewers to migrant
workers from the US?

That's what Snuffellufogus should learn ASAP: in a free market, the rule
is: Adapt or Die.  And if you don't want a free market, you die anyway
as the rest of the world leaves you behind.

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