A 1%er That’s Human

 

     Original Article

I am the 1%. I'm with the 99%. If the boat sinks, we all drown.

By plf515              Tue Oct 18, 2011

By any rational standard, I am the 1%.

I'm with the 99%.

But there's a rhetoric out there, among some. There's a rhetoric saying that it's the rich versus the poor. Or the 1% vs. the 99%.  It's not. Not everyone who is rich is a jerk; and some people who are poor are jerks. I'm guessing that the guy holding up the sign "keep government out of my medicare!" was not part of any elite.

But the 1%. Well, I'm not close to the top of that 1%. Alan Grayson is a lot closer. He's worth tens of millions, and he's a BIG OccupyWallStreet supporter. 

Ever hear of Mohammed El-Erian? He's Wall Street if anyone is. He's CEO of an asset management company called PIMCO. He wrote an Op-Ed for Huffington post in support of OWS.

Because some of us 1% are smart enough to realize that if the boat sinks, we all drown. 

And some of us are decent enough to know that people everywhere deserve a certain standard of living, that no one should be hungry and no one should be homeless and no one should die because they don't have health insurance and you shouldn't be able to deny someone water because they don't have the right papers.

Some of us know that the class warfare was started by the conservatives, and that they are mad because we're demanding a ceasefire.

It's not the 99% vs. the 1%.  It's the 99% vs. the portion of the 1% that are shmucks.

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India Losing Call-Centers Due To High Wages?

     Laura Clawson for Daily Kos Labor     Tue Oct 18, 2011

Call centers leave India as American companies look for cheaper labor

Congratulations to India, where labor and business costs have risen enough that American companies are transferring their call-center work elsewhere:

Some Indian companies have tried to adjust by hiring less-expensive workers from small Indian towns or switching to high-end back-office work, including paralegal services, accounting and education.

But in the past three years, 13 Indian call-center companies have set up large offices in the Philippines and have trained and hired local workers, according to the National Association of Software and Service Companies.

“The growth in the Philippines is also being driven, to a large extent, by Indian outsourcing companies that are setting up operations there,” said Sangeeta Gupta, the association’s senior vice president.

Call-center work for Indian companies, like that "high-end back-office work," is still located in India. At least until the never-ending race to the bottom sends much of that to the Philippines, too. But when that happens, India should take heart in the fact that the U.S., after losing so many jobs to cheaper labor elsewhere, eventually itself became a source of cheap labor and got some jobs back.

Originally posted to Daily Kos Labor on Tue Oct 18, 2011

Also republished by Class Warfare Newsletter: WallStreet VS the Working Class Occupy movement. and Daily Kos.

Technorati Tags: Outsourcing,Labor,India,The Philippines,Current Events,An American Gothic,Employment