Programmers at the Bottom of the Barrel?
I just read a recent article titled Bottom of the Barrel in Newsweek about the problem of forced labor in Asian countries where many computer products are made. Poor people are being duped into taking manufacturing jobs in wretched conditions with little pay. It’s basically slavery.
The criticism that “low rates = slavery” is sometimes leveled at offshore software development too. Displaced American programmers may feel that to work at the rates that some offshore vendors must mean their offshore programmer replacements must be earning only slave wages.
But it’s not true. Rising salaries in India are the evidence.
Anyway, software development is a creative process. You can’t get it done with an uncooperative and unmotivated programmer chained to a computer.

















