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What happened to that fellow was tragic. The jobs going to India was not tragic. It was our economic system working as it was designed to. What was tragic was that fellow giving up on life, giving up on himself and his family. He quit.


Since I didn't know what was going through his mind at the time, I cannot make that judgement.

But seeing the looming loss of his home and savings, he might have looked at his life insurance policy and decided that was the best way to secure his wife's future. I dunno. He had to have been really ground down to do that.

But I'm not sure that you understand how hard it was for an IT professional to get a job in this area over the past few years. My boss tells me we've had to turn away highly qualified guys willing to take 50% pay cuts simply because we were worried about having to lay off some of our own.