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Liberal Racist?
On 07 Jul 2004 14:58:09 GMT, (Gould 0738) wrote:
PS - According to the CIA World Fact book, for someone in India to earn as
much purchasing power as the average worker in the US, they must earn $2900
per year.
That's $1.45 an hour, assuming the Indian workers do 5 (8-hr) days per week
(not more) and get two weeks of unpaid vacation.
I provide 807 links that establish a typical pay rate of $1 per hour, check a
few to verify, and you fault my research?
Here's a face-saving fig leaf for ya. A cut n paste from one article that says
some wages in India can be as high as $2......
thereby ripping the heart out of my assertion that the Indian call center
employees are working more cheaply than any American can afford to. (Typical
liberal. Bemoans that no American can exist on $40 a week, when the facts are
that a very industrious worker with a little seniority and a willingness to
assume some management responsibility can eventually hope to rise to $80 a
week. Instead of one corn dog a week, the industrious worker will be able to
have a tank of gas, a six pack of beer, and a corn dog *every day*! Woo hoo!
Watch those damn liberals, they refuse to see the upside potential)
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Near-shore locations offer workers at wages lower than the US' though not as
low as India's. According to Trammell Crow, typical hourly wages in US dollars
are $2.50-$3 in Jamaica and $5-$7 in Canada compared to $7.50-$14 in
the US. In contrast, India's typical hourly wages in US dollars are just $1-$2.
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So what exactly is your beef? Are you faulting the companies which are
taking advantage of these low wages? Or should you be faulting the
ignorant Indian (and other) workers who don't know that they should be
making much more?
Remember, no one is holding a gun to the heads of these workers. In
many cases, even thought their wages are lower than what WE are
accustomed to, they are far better than what they were making before.
Improvements in any third world country's standard of living will come
slowly. But it will come. The people have to realize what they have,
and fight to get more for it.
Dave
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