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BLOB_CASTLE  ·  4332 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Man Oursources His Own Job

I just got back from a class in which we were discussing American history and we were talking about slaves and it got me thinking. Isn't using slaves simply outsourcing but on a more local scale?





user92  ·  4331 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Um, no. Slavery is when you don't compensate someone for their work. You could argue that the way we often outsource is akin to slavery but that mainly comes down to implementation.

BLOB_CASTLE  ·  4331 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Right I may have been going out too far on a limb with that one. Regardless, like you said the implementation is roughly the same. Having someone else do your work because you don't want to and it'd save you money.