[NineStarPoint]

In the general sense, I think you’re right that part of it is US employees getting unhappy that jobs are moving elsewhere because they’re cheaper. From a moral standpoint there’s not much wrong about giving people in other countries a better life. (There are probably some arguments about supporting the country that gave you the necessary infrastructure to succeed in the first place?)

That said, I think the debates mostly come from the amount of times this has gone very poorly in the past. CEOs who come in to cut costs are often CEOs who aim to replace their top of the line US employees with not top of the line Indian employees but bulk middling/bad Indian employees. And for the US employees who remain this makes working with their code awful and slowly drains the company into a mess that people then have to deal with when inevitably things get bad enough to bring everyone back on shore.

When I’ve worked at companies who pay the money for good Indian employees, they’ve been reasonable to great to work with. But that’s rarely been how offshoring has worked out in my experience.