A most excellent question. I'll get around to that in a Domain Query podcast soon. There are several major reasons for it, and one of them has to do with the massive gender imbalance in the country. India is missing anywhere between 30 and 100 MILLION women due to the very strong Hindu prejudices against female children, and thereby the prevalence of sex-selective abortions.

"And their men are MASSIVE blue pill Betas at almost every level, thanks to the very dysfunctional sexual and marriage dynamics of the country."

I always got that vibe just by being around and talking with them, but why is that the case? I think there's a very strong matriarchal bent in their society, but are Indian mothers just that incredibly overbearing?

In most cases I do not blame the indians for this. It's the American companies outsourcing, they know what they are buying, it's their fault that they are cutting corners.

I agree. Indians didn't set American corporate policy. And in fact, if you actually ask real Indians what they think about American attempts to bring back those outsourced jobs, most of them support the idea.

Indians believe that it is the Indian government's duty and mission to encourage investment in India, and it is the American government's duty to do the same for Americans.

Indians DO NOT believe that Americans owe Indians jobs.

The only people in favour of the ridiculous notion that America should give every Dirt Worlder and his dog a job, are the people who make a lot of money from perpetuating the outsourcing racket.

It's not beneficial for Americans, and it leads to a crippling dependence among Indians on American money and resources, which has stunted India's growth in other areas.

(Well… that, and the fact that the Indian government is a plague upon its people, regardless of whether it's Congress or the BJP in power.)

And Indians are actually very, very good at saying "No". So if you have a company where basically the entire basis of your inbound is people trying to rip off your company (which actually happens a lot… No Kay Jewellers customes need 'technical support', they almost always call in trying to con free shit) Then by all means, set up your inbound centers in a place where Saying No in various ways is almost an art form, and where the would-be extortionists are made uncomfortable by their lack of ability to penetrate a thick foreign accent.

But in most cases, those companies are entirely to blame… And in some cases (Gateway, e-machines) the companies fail hard… and appropriately… because of such corner-cutting.

Well, I haven't trusted an Indian tech since I had problem with my cable lines, and explained step-by-step all the troubleshooting I performed (I was a+ certified and had been doing their EXACT job for comcast for two years) and explained exactly why they needed to send a tech out to replace the badly-damaged line between my house and the pole.

And the Tech sounded confused and then explained that the problem was at my end, with my computer, because it sounded like my computer's Flux Capacitor needed to have it's quantum drivers replaced.

I mean, it was sorta funny, I started laughing, but it was still deeply offensive to the point where I chose to show up at their local depot with the damaged cable in one hand and a hand-typed transcript of the recorded conversation in the other. And funny enough, despite the thick accent of the 'tech' on the phone (and the other techs yammering in the background), there wasn't a single Indian working in their 'call center for Maryland'.

I've compared them to computer programs with my colleagues, in that they just freeze up and stop working in the same way when they encounter an unexpected situation.

Yeah. This is partly due to their culture and partly to their education system.

Their culture is very much based on the "shit rolls downhill" approach to government, cultural cohesion, and so on. In Indian companies, you go up the ladder through connections and greasing the palms of senior managers. That is not universally true – there are plenty of Indians who have risen through the ranks by being damned good at their jobs. But overall, it's pretty accurate. And they then bring that culture of mutual back-scratching with them to other countries.

And their men are MASSIVE blue pill Betas at almost every level, thanks to the very dysfunctional sexual and marriage dynamics of the country.

Their education system requires them to learn everything by rote. They are GREAT at reciting back facts and figures and writing things according to preset formulas. But the moment you try to get them off script and actually THINK, they can't do it. They freeze up. They have very little imagination and even less spontaneity.

Indians have a lot of good points. Plenty of Westerners go to the country and enjoy their time there. But you would NEVER want to live there full time, and you absolutely DO NOT want to have them coming over to live among you en masse.

I watched it all the way through. It's truly depressing how bad The Fall of Skywalker is.

Finally someone talks about Indian customer support. When will the incoherent speaking accent and the copy-paste e-mail responses end?

When Indians finally learn how to be British. Which, given that the Brits left India in 1947, strikes me as highly unlikely.

There is so much 80s cheese in that movie that watching it rips a hole in spacetime that drops you right into an episode of Miami Vice.