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To: The New York
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Dear
Editors,
I wonder how
YOU would
respond to
rumours that
your
shareholders
and board of
directors were
thinking of
outsourcing
your editorial
office and
most of the
NYT's
journalistic
work to India,
paying Indians
a fraction of
your salaries
to do the jobs
that you now
do? (today's
editorial:
Computing
Error)
Of course, you
are all VERY
confident that
such a move is
quite
unthinkable,
but just try
to imagine it
for a moment .
. . .
It is very
easy to be
enthusiastic
about
competition
and
globalisation,
so long as it
is not one's
own job that
is on the line
(assuming that
you are
financially
dependent on
your job, and
don't have
other sources
of income to
fall back on).
Competition
(which, by the
way, is rooted
in our "more
animal than
human"
nature) drives
our economy,
but we
urgently need
to open our
eyes and see
where it is
driving us to.
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