Racist

http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/16/2319240&tid=192&tid=156&tid=103&tid=6

The above link is a book review from Slashdot. Something there are inspiring (of course, the main text is included). I copied one of the comment here:

pick one: H1b or chinese outsourcing
by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 17, @09:17AM (#11111039)
I’m a former H1b worker, back in Europe (for a couple of years now) after nearly six years in Silicon Valley. I think I gave pretty good value for money. The chinese and indian guys I worked with gave excellent value for money - we (our faceless US corp) had the cream of the crop from their universities. China and India still teach their people that it’s a noble, worthwhile profession to be an engineer, to actually *make* things. Europe does so, but less and less each year. The US has largely forgotten. Our US employees came in two distinct types: the startup guys, brilliant brilliant people, and a legion of corporate numskulls. Americans aren’t stupid at all, but the educational and career system turns most smart Americans away from science, technology, engineering, and other truly wealth-creating activities, and ever more into service economy positions. Only last week I heard a Reith Lecture by James Dyson (he of the vacuum cleaner), decrying a similar decline in British education and commerce. US companies hire H1b employees not because there isn’t an American who can (theoretically) do the job, but because pretty much all the Americans who are smart and motivated enough to do the job are trained, or motivated, to do something else entirely. It’s more than a shame, it’s more than a national disgrace. The politicians and business leaders and educationalists who allowed such a condition to come to pass are traitors of the very worst sort, and should immediately be hanged.

You should set a target: the US graduates 200,000 more engineers and scientists in six years than it did this year, or every member of congress is executed. Hanged. Badly. Slowly.

Now don’t get me wrong, I had a whale of a time in the US. I was treated very well, well paid (none of this $70K shit), and generally had a productive, exciting time; but most of my productive co-workers were Chinese and Indian guys, smart and genuinely enthused about what we were making and who our product would help. Crappy english, sure, some of them - and some of them, particularly the Indians, better english speakers than native me (or is that I?). All the time I, and all these smart foreigners worked in the US, Slashdot, Congress and other crapass “thinkers” (ahem) slandered us. They said we were dumb, they said we were uneducated, or spoke bad english, they said we’d work for slave labo[u]r rates, they said (frankly) we were inferior. And all the time the US trade gap grew and grew, more and more skilled jobs moved to India and China, more and more the US economy slipped into a whole from which it seems determined never to emerge.

Let’s face it. The average H1b worker moved away from his family, from everything he knew to work in the US, to maintain an ecomomy whose own managers seemed determined to outsource it, to be slandered and deprecated by third-rate journalists and racist politicians. Sure, he made more money than he’d make in Bangalore or Shanghai, but the difference is less and less (particularly compared with the cost of living in the Research Triangle or the Silicon Valley) each year. Now that the tech recession has come for everyone he’s probably moved back to Shanghai or Bangalore (unwelcome, filthy terrist foreigned slanty-eyed bastard that he is, in the US). Whose economy do you thing he’s helping? Into whose business do his smarts flow?

The US economy (and to a marginally lesser extent the EU economy too) holds a gun to its own head. Both have squandered the promise of the new economy. Foreign workers are one less, not one more, bullet in the revolver.

With engineering and science, at it highest levels, moved east - what do the US and Europe actually _make_? Can you really expect to run two of the world’s largest economic blocks on missles, movies, and life insurance?