{"id":1813,"date":"2004-01-10T02:41:22","date_gmt":"2004-01-10T09:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/01\/right-shoring-and-mis-educating\/"},"modified":"2004-01-10T02:41:22","modified_gmt":"2004-01-10T09:41:22","slug":"right-shoring-and-mis-educating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/10\/right-shoring-and-mis-educating\/","title":{"rendered":"Right-shoring and mis-educating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tFiorina and Barrett told Congress that <a title=\"Economists back tech industry's overseas hiring \/ Workers deny U.S. lacks qualified staff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2004\/01\/09\/MNG6C46T0M1.DTL\">US tech jobs have to go offshore<\/a><br \/>\n on account of the crappy educational system in this country: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWarning that the U.S. lead in high technology is in serious jeopardy from competition from other nations, they outlined a long-term agenda to improve grade-school and high-school education, double federal spending on basic research in the physical sciences and form a national policy to promote high- speed broadband communications networks, as Japan and Korea have done. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sen. Boxer has offered to fix the schools, but it was people like her that broke them to begin with, with their insistence on soft subjects like self-esteem and emoting sessions instead of actual science and math education, and their insistence on affirmative action for middle-class white women to the detriment of actual academic standards.  But education isn&#8217;t really the issue that motivates off-shoring, costs are. I&#8217;ve never heard a tech industry manager say he wanted to move software development to India in order to increase quality, it&#8217;s always to lower costs, and labor costs are driven by cost-of-living. The major components of COL are housing and taxes, so the more government involvement we see in education and technology, the worse we can expect that equation to get.<\/p>\n<p>So, the problem with the American worker isn&#8217;t lack of training, it&#8217;s the cost of living in places like California and New York, and no amount of federal pork is going to fix that problem. The alternative to moving low-value jobs such as customer service to India and China is to move them to lower cost-of-living areas within North America, such as the drizzly Northwest and the Sunny South. Boxer and her ilk lose if that happens too, alas.<\/p>\n<p>(edited Saturday noon)\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiorina and Barrett told Congress that US tech jobs have to go offshore on account of the crappy educational system in this country: Warning that the U.S. lead in high technology is in serious jeopardy from competition from other nations, they outlined a long-term agenda to improve grade-school and high-school education, double federal spending on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/10\/right-shoring-and-mis-educating\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Right-shoring and mis-educating&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-tf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}