Short of a ton of americans moving to southeast asia starting their own design shops using local labor, I only see the price going down. If you want to firm up prices, you have to soak up the supply (remember the law of supply and demand). Since that's not gonna happen anytime soon, you'll just see more of the pattern of guys who used to work for outsource companies take a few clients with them when they leave, those clients no longer have any work, so they hit the boards doing stuff for cheap. American training + third world wages = $200 or lower monthly rates.
Probably one of the biggest barriers against price lowering is probably the price of infrastructure. I'm not sure if its taxes... I don't know if the tax police is as hardcore in SE asia as in the US or Canada/EU
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by BlueWire
These prices will only go up. The bottom was 3 years ago and the prices have gone up. The dollar COULD go up and drive down prices, but the dollar is in no position to do so...
What will happen is US Designers will start earning less, overseas will start learning more and over the course of time it starts to balance out more and more.
And to whoever said outsourcing should be a punishable crime...I mean, we're all entitled to our opinions...But we have a software production office overseas and our programmers earn the equivilent of 120K/yr . They live in nice condos downtown for the most part or are no longer barely getting by with their families.
Would they be better off with their old jobs , earning about 1/5th as much ...putting themselves in a position where one thing can go wrong (medical, natural disaster) and they might DIE?
I TOTALLY understand people who are pissed about outsourcing because it takes jobs overseas (because american workers demands have gotten too high)....
But most the people who are against it watched a NOVA special on sweatshops in like 1991 that showed people in Taiwan making shoes for 2 cents an hour. Educate yourself, most these people live better within their communities than 95% of Americans.
This is the question I always ask people who think its wrong....
DO YOU THINK ITS WRONG TO PAY A UPS DELIVERY GUY IN CALIFORNIA MORE IN CALIFORNIA THAN ONE IN SOUTH DAKOTA BECAUSE HIS RENT IS 3 TIMES AS MUCH?
I think thats just economics and nothing more
 |