Thursday, November 15, 2007

The Outsourced Life

So Stu and I are engaged in our usual commuting babble, when Stu explodes with great excitement over an article he was reading in Esquire, where the author had managed to outsource nearly every aspect of his life...to INDIA!

From sending flowers to his wife to penning memos to his boss to reading bedtime stories to his child, his Personal Assistants Across The Ocean did it all!

Stu excitedly continued to babble with great enthusiasm about this revelation, also including mention of a book called The Four Hour Work Week, and mentioning a website called Your Man In India.

My initial apprehension regarding this turned into full blown appall, upon reading the Esquire article myself. Also mentioned is another website, Brickwork India, which performs similar activities, and another book, The World is Flat.

How they must hate us Imperialistic Pig Dogs. Imagine people so arrogant, so self-important, shallow and callous as to outsource their personal relationships with so-called loved ones. So-called because anyone who would even consider outsourcing conversations with their parents to India absolutely is incapable of love of any depth. How screwed we are as a society when we feel the need to have someone thousands of miles around the world wipe our asses for us, while those performing these menial tasks for a fee increase their ever-growing stranglehold on the American economy.


Have a nice and productive day!

(written for Mikay by Sanjiv Kumar, his personal man-servant in Bangalore, India)

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