“If Indian IT is so bad, why the f**k do you think everybody is getting Indian IT workers to work in here. Banks & not stupid. They are here to make money. Anyone who makes them money is a good choice for them.”
Of course banks and major businesses aren’t stupid. You’re right, anyone who makes them money is a good choice for them. But workers don’t make them money, customers and investments do. Workers are filed under business expenses and cost (in order to make that money). If Indian techies are cheaper, and help with the bottom line, banks can get “bang for their buck” and spend less money on human resource, to add to their profit margin… why not? Same way call centres are outsourced to the cheapest possible place to do the job. Unbridled capitalism means paying workers as little as possible as one way to maximise profit, at all cost, until proven detrimental/unsustainable. Unbridled capitalism is ideal for all businesses as the purpose of business is profit.
Governments, on the other hand, have a responsibility to its citizens, because it’s citizenry that builds the nation and subsequently, the government. I took up Info Tech as my post-secondary education only to realise that, one semester in, polytechnics are churning cogs in the IT machinery. Singapore eventually gets cheaper cogs from India… again, why not? This is happening in the US too. That’s how businesses are run. Don’t think for a second that India produces tech specialists to deem Singaporeans replaceable by their skills and expertise alone. Otherwise, these skilled workers would be paid more, not less, than the average Singaporean worker bee if Indian worker bees are generally much more valued. This also creates downward pressure on the Singaporean’s salary. The cheaper worker bee concept has permeated far beyond the manufacturing sector of the 70s and 80s into the service/support industry.
I am glad I quit a “stable” polytechnic education (much to my parents’ chagrin) and switched to a design school and am in the design field now. Am able to be survive and manoeuvre, partly because being educated outside of the cog-producing factories we call the government education system, has enabled me to use my cognitive skills to think, innovate, adapt and survive… and hopefully flourish when I start my own business in the foreseeable future.
I’m not saying it’s the Indian workers fault – all worker (bees) would go anywhere the money (honey) is. It’s about corporations being in bed with a government that is really nothing more than a corporation armed with legislative powers of the land. So at the end of the day, it’s the citizenry getting screwed.
PPD