Så vad ska man göra när jobben försvinner utomlands?

"It's the great unanswered business-economic question of our day: How do we replace the hundreds of thousands of information-technology, call-center, paralegal, and other jobs rapidly exiting the U.S. for India, Russia, and other low-wage countries? The main answer that the so-called experts put forth, without a lot of conviction, is that we'll create new 'high-value' jobs to replace those leaving the U.S. What are those jobs? No one seems to know."

Ett teknikföretag i Boston provade en annan modell. Varför inte dra fördel av situationen?

"C-Market needed four programmers, pronto. Jon knew the numbers for experienced American programmers doing the specialty work he required: $80,000 a year, with benefits adding an additional $5,000 to $10,000 per programmer. The intermediary came back with the number for the services from India: $40,000 per programmer.

What if he offered Americans the jobs at the same rate he would be paying for Indian programmers? (...) Jon placed some ads in The Boston Globe. (...) The result? 'We got flooded' with resumes."
(Business Week: U.S. Programmers at Overseas Salaries, 2 dec)

Halverade löner, alltså. Som tillverkningsindustrin redan tidigare gått igenom. Och icke-fysiska tjänster är naturligtvis ännu lättare att flytta. Programkod levereras på sekunden från andra sidan jorden. Kläder tar ändå veckor eller månader med flyg och båt. (Tack, Chris!)

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