I find it sad that foreign sweatshop employees who don’t speak English as their first language are grading papers written in English.  Leaving aside the question of the deterioration of the education system in this country that results in college students having an inadequate grasp of how to write coherently, aren’t there enough underemployed people in America with English degrees who could be organized into a grading sweatshop?

GooberMcNutly wrote:

EduMetry

My vote for dumbest sounding business name ever.

Ever is a long time.

fnord wrote:

Leaving aside the question of the deterioration of the education system in this country that results in college students having an inadequate grasp of how to write coherently, aren’t there enough underemployed people in America with English degrees who could be organized into a grading sweatshop?

Not with the profit margins that these guys are making. I do not think many Americans appreciate just how vastly cheaper it is to run an operation in India. Not only is skilled educated labor such an order of magnitude cheaper, overhead for operations is even further magnitudes cheaper.  It costs mere pennies to build and operate facilities and operations in India because the unskilled labor is payed just mere fractions of what the Indian professional labor is. The economic class disparity is something we can not even comprehend. Never in our American history have we experienced it. Only during short periods of the late 1800s did we have anything that comes close in  the sweatshop cities and even then it does not truly compare.

I had a family member  needed emergency heart surgery while traveling in India. We luckily located a hospital in lees then an hour to send him to that saved his life. An Indian staffed  hospital built for westerners coming for heart surgery and transplants.  He spent 14 days in Intensive care. Had revolutionary experimental treatments not available in the US. There were 3 IC nurses always at his bedside 24/7 for 2 weeks. They had no other patients. This must gave been 9 to 12 individual highly trained nurses. The afflicted family member said it was the best care anywhere in the world. And he knows his worldwide cardiac hospitals.

The insurance would not pay an Indian hospital directly choosing rather to reimburse. The hospital asked for payment upon release. Our family began the steps to liquidate assets and acquire mortgages to pay what we expected to be nearly half million dollar bill.

All of a sudden we got a call from the wife saying he has been released. We were like what about the bank transfer we had set up.

She was like, don't worry about it,

"Huh, what"

"Oh it is payed, I just put it on my credit card"

It was only 14k. You heard that right. $14,000. And the hospital is still making a hefty profit selling service to westerners. Just imagine what it is costing them to build and opearte such a facility.

Last edited by Johnny_Rotten (2010-04-12 21:30:59)