Outsourcing Is Not (Always) Evil

From David Bornstein / New York Times: The United States can outsource certain kinds of “microwork,” such as accurately digitizing large swaths of information, to developing countries without taking jobs from Americans ― if it’s done carefully, and ethically, as some organizations, like Digital Divide Data, are working to do. As the author Robert Wright has argued, we no longer live in a zero-sum world, where one person’s, or one country’s gain, must be another’s loss.