Rent a White Guy - Confessions of a fake businessman from Beijing(theatlantic.com)

7 pointsby thejovor 16 Jahren2 comments

Rent a White Guy - Confessions of a fake businessman from Beijing

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/rent-a-white-guy/8119/

4 comments

Alex63vor 16 Jahren

I will be interested to see how this story fares in voting over the next couple of days. I'm not really sure how it relates to "hacker news", unless one interprets hacking to include masquerading as a businessman.

I trust The Atlantic enough to believe that they have fact checked the piece. So what is the point from an HN perspective? Caucasians can make money by masquerading as executives in China? Chinese high-tech manufacturing companies (or their subcontractors) hire people to masquerade as executives? Even the suggestion that they were circumventing quality control requirements was negated by the author's comment that the guys asked to stay on did receive QC training.

I'd love to see some comments here, explaining why this is HN-relevant.

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GiraffeNecktievor 16 Jahren

It worked for me, if only as an interesting insight into how the world works.

InfinityX0vor 16 Jahren

The article has already been posted, and it had great success. I have no idea how it posted again, it may be hosted at a different URL.