Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Sometimes it seems that if you give Tom Friedman enough oxygen, he'll talk himself into a full circle. After a few columns where he has tried to allay American worries about high-tech outsourcing, his latest - The Great Indian Dream - says the following:
So if you are worried about outsourcing, I've got good news and bad news. The good news is that a unique techno-cultural-economic perfect storm came together in the early 1990's to make India a formidable competitor and partner for certain U.S. jobs - and there are not a lot of other Indias out there. The bad news, from a competition point of view, is that there are 555 million Indians under the age of 25, and a lot of them want a piece of 'The Great Indian Dream,' which is a lot like the American version.
