Offshoring Schadenfreude

Dictionary.com defines schadenfreude as satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else’s misfortune.  That pretty much describes what I felt today when I read on CNN that an undersea cable break had crippled telecommunications and internet connections in areas of the Middle East and Asia.  Now I love my internet connection so I wasn’t feeling pleasure at the pain of the people overseas that lost their connectivity.  What I was enjoying (and still am) was the frantic handwringing on the part of American companies that had decided to send their jobs overseas to save money. 

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Tags: costs analysis, disaster recovery, economic impacts, offshoring