The administration keeps touting re-skilling as their solution to outsourcing. Without ever actually saying what new skills we should learn. So when I was reading an article on Greenspan's profound statements about protectionism there was a link to an article on re-skilling. As usual he compares today's outsourcing with the movement of blue collar textile jobs. I really wonder what advice Greenspan gives to his nieces about their careers.
Turns out it was from IBM who said that the skills they thought we should learn are open source technologies. Which is funny because it aligns exactly with their technology strategy. And stupid, because open source technology jobs are fleeing just as fast as anything else. A spokesman for one Indian firm I heard on the radio said that any work that is done on the wire can be outsourced. That includes IBM's open source jobs. BTW, IBM's consulting services are all backed by Bangalore.
In a show of sympathy for American workers displaced by outsourcing the IBM spokesman took the opportunity to also talk about their silly on-demand strategy.
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