Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Forcing reservations ('affirmative action') on corporate hiring.

So in India, the government proposes to reserve employment in the private sector as well?
There goes the pvt sector, reverse brain drain, foreign investment, employment opportunities - out the country.

What happens when the best qualified people are denied an opportunity in industry, much like in education, and the public ( government run) sector? The country gets second rate talent, second rate qualifications, incompetence, and the reversal of all the positive economic indices of the past decade.

The creme de la creme will likely go where they'll be employed on merit - meaning out the country. Some will leave (again) to for the same reason they left the country in the first place. They left India because opportunities in higher education were denied to them, and they were accepted in the United States. They come back after years there, and this happens at the employment level. Why bother?

Why is India such a hot business and investment destination? Because of its educated workforce. So when you compromise and take in people that aren't as qualified or competent, business goes elsewhere.

Of course the single celled organisms in Parliament, and in political parties will not understand that. Even if these jokers did, they'd not care - why care about the country when there's votes to be had? For shame.

On a happier/lighter and selfish note, now this is something that makes me feel good. =) I have the mini, not the nano.
RIP, iPod Mini? No way, fans say

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