Gaming Sweatshops
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Well, we have outsourced manufacturing, customer support, engineering, and even torture. The new business opportunity seems to be in outsourcing ogre slaying.
Yes, that’s right, you can now pay someone in China to play your computer games while you are busy working. Somehow I thought it should be another way around - I should be outsourcing my work to someone who can do it cheaper while I am busy playing computer games.
What’s next? I am thinking we should get ready to outsource our partying, drinking and smoking because it is too bad for us, but someone just has to do it while we are running on treadmills, meditating and growing organic lavender.
Why not outsource these as well? I will now outsource my hiking. After which I can stay at home and watch reality shows all the time. Maybe I will outsource my blogging as well.
..and I will outsource the reading of your blogs as well
I’ll outsource all the keyboards in India.
I will outsource thinking about reading or writing in your blogs.
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December 29th, 2005 by vinod
As a follow up to the post on gaming sweatshops, there is a certain economic sense in outsourcing the initial part o [...]