Blocking Outsourcing Will Do More Harm Than Good
from the not-so-easy-for-those-affected,-but-important dept
Last week's post about tech jobs being outsourced received quite a reaction. It seems that this is the hot topic among techies these days. Here's another opinion piece that says outsourcing is going to be much better for the economy, though, admittedly, it does suck for those who have recently lost their jobs. However, just like every other wave of jobs that got outsourced to foreign countries, the end result will be higher quality jobs at home. The transition period is very rough, but it allows the US to remain much more competitive. While some people love to complain about these things, the complaining doesn't help them to keep their jobs. If people forced the US to stop outsourcing, it would make American companies less competitive on the world market - meaning they would end up going out of business themselves, costing even more jobs. Instead of complaining about the changing job market, it would seem to be a lot more proactive to work on ways to create new American jobs.
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Available New Jobs for Americans
7-11 employee
Gas station attendant
Trinket seller on Times Square
Subway sandwich store owner
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Re: Available New Jobs for Americans
...just wait until blogging gets outsourced...
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Re: Available New Jobs for Americans
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Never recovered from previous outsourcing
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Re: Never recovered from previous outsourcing
And recenty Levi's announced they are closing their last American manufacturing plant in America.
What Mike fails to blindly see is that if Americans are not manufacturing anything and not providing any services either then there isn't a whole hell of a lot of jobs left.
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Re: Never recovered from previous outsourcing
As the article suggests outsourcing leads to evolution as people seek to find better industries.
Placing limits on outsourcing is, in the end worse. Its like developing a successful product and then sitting back and saying "I have an income stream to last me and my great-great-grandchildren". Pretty soon the competition comes up with better products, your income stream is nothing and you may have no hope of catching up.
Sure it sucks for those involved. But the world moves on.
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Re: Never recovered from previous outsourcing
Historically, as jobs have been outsourced in various industries, higher-level jobs in other industries have sprung up to replace them.
How about some statistics. How many auto factory workers lost their jobs in the last 15 years, and what are they doing now? What higher level jobs do they have?
How many are now business executives, doctors, lawyers, and accountants? How many are living at or above their previous standard of living? How about some FACTS. How many are earning less now than they did before. How many can afford to buy the products that they themselves once manufactured?
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middle man
i dunno from the perspective of the software industry america is becoming the 'middle man' and i can definitely see a point where the middle man will totally be removed from the equation and people will instead talk directly with india. and if that ends up being the case i can't really see how it will help america.
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Second, if the end result leads to cheaper, better products, isn't that good for the economy?
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Re: middle man
It's also an issue of corproate conscience. How long will the Indians work for $1/hr before they begin to realize "Americans made $50/hr doing this before, I want more money!" Of course the corps don't pay and the Indians, instead of receving better, *equivalent* pay are kept at their current, pathetic standard of living, because what else will they do? Better to have the tablescraps than nothing at all.
The real issue is NOT Americans vs. Indians vs. any other third world nation. It's not about the American economy. It's not about cheaper, better products. It's simply about fatter corporate balanace sheets.
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