Cringely on offshoring
Cringely goes into more detail why he thinks offshoring is a bad idea, here’s my summary of the article:
- post-war brain drain from UK->US; no more auto industry there
- small numbers but sensitive, because big work done by small teams
- stakeholder prob: US gov’t, state gov’ts, employees don’t want it. Investors and
top management do, and they have extremely short time perspectives - multinationals effect on local tax revenue
- maybe we will reinvent, as did Silicon Valley? But that was a confluence of labor and
capital, and the labor is leaving