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lori_lightbrain t1_jcw9fny wrote

Reply to comment by housepuma in India cuts internet for 27 million people amid search for fugitive by marketrent

> with a lot of its citizenry well-educated in IT, could create their own internet in defiance of the government.

those people are windup toys who jump at whatever hoops are thrown to them by the westerners hiring them for offshore work. that's very different from coming up with your own mesh network from scratch, which requires multidisciplinary expertise in electrical engineering, hardware radios, networking software, etc. etc.

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cinemachick t1_jcwneq0 wrote

Say what you will about the outsourcing of labor, but it's a bit goache to call them 'windup toys.' It takes skill to execute directions from a different country in a different language to exact specifications, even if the task isn't a higher order of intelligence. Just because they're paid less for smaller jobs now, doesn't mean they aren't capable of learning something more skilled in the future.

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