Gould,
I am curious where you found the info on paying those in India $1 an hour,
can you provide a link?



Enter: $1 hour wages India in a search engine. I got 807 hits.
Checking several of them establishes a common agreement that help line,
warranty, and other customer service workers in India are
earning $1 an hour, or in some cases less.

Our local newspaper ran a series on outsourcing last winter, and the wage
figure was mentioned repeatedly.

It isn't possible for Americans to decide to work cheaply enough to compete.
$2000 a year won't support *anybody* in the US.

Programmers, tech writers, accountants, are next. Any job that can be done at a
computer and the results sent in to a website from anywhere around the world
will no longer be done in the US. Time to take up plumbing, auto mechanics,
house painting, or some type of sales that can't be handled strictly over the
telephone.

Say hello the world economy. The great "equalizer". Those at the top will be
brought down a peg or three (that would be working folks in NA), so that the
poorest of the poor folk elsewhere can step up a little.
If you're living in a mud hut in a 3rd world country, you may soon be slightly
better off. If you own enough of any one of the companies making astronomical
profits by paying almost nothing for wages, you will soon be better off as
well. Everybody else, not so much.