{"id":463,"date":"2003-12-31T07:18:17","date_gmt":"2003-12-31T07:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=463"},"modified":"2003-12-31T07:18:17","modified_gmt":"2003-12-31T07:18:17","slug":"the-future-doesnt-need-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/12\/the-future-doesnt-need-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The future doesn&#8217;t need us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I happened across this encouraging tidbit while reading an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alwayson-network.com\/comments.php?id=P2217_0_21_0_C\">accounting of 10 lesser-noted trends of 2003:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>2. The U.S. began to massively export white-collar jobs. Despite the high productivity of America&#8217;s 130 million employed workers, companies of all kinds discovered that they could get many jobs done for less money overseas. This was particularly true of service jobs, <i>where one of the main requirements is mastery of English.<\/i> The U.S. has no monopoly on Shakespeare&#8217;s tongue, so American managers &#8212; in fields as varied as computer programming, insurance and management consulting &#8212; shifted millions of jobs to English-speaking but lower paying India, Ireland, and various countries of the Caribbean, among others. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Emphasis mine. We need to start thinking of reasons why people in India and Ireland can&#8217;t do our jobs, and to get really noisy about what we find out (or stay really quiet, depending on our conclusions).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I happened across this encouraging tidbit while reading an accounting of 10 lesser-noted trends of 2003: 2. The U.S. began to massively export white-collar jobs. Despite the high productivity of America&#8217;s 130 million employed workers, companies of all kinds discovered&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/12\/the-future-doesnt-need-us\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}