Reply #21: operating under a misconception [View All]

[idlisambar]

The modern day young student better bust his/her butt in school, make good grades, obtain an academic scholorship for college and be ready to enter a phase in our country where the USA is the technology developer for the world and the rest of the world is the manufacturing base, because that's the way it's trending.

Outsourcing means that India (and China, and Russia, etc.) will be the technology developer of the world. There are 10 Indian engineering students for every 1 American. Even now, most of the software developers in this country are foreign born. Given this reality, if you can give one good reason for your faith that the US will continue to be a technology center in the long term, let me know.

As for kids working harder in school -- that's not enough anymore. The kid should make sure the career he/she wants is not vulnerable to outsourcing.