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ORIGINAL: UtopianRanger

I'm sure you could make a case that it both sets up a framework and facilitates improvements /modernization in that third world country’s infrastructure.  

- R

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ORIGINAL: Level

Well, lifting up other nation's poor could (concievably **sp???**) reduce tensions, anger, and violence, or at least some argue that. But at our expense......

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 And I certainly do not believe for a moment that corporations are interested in anything other than increasing profits as is their duty to shareholders

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We'd have slavery tomorrow if it were commercially viable.

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Is there not an argument for us to be helping from a position of strength, if we wish to help?

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ORIGINAL: Level
The globalists argue that that is exactly what we're doing, I think.

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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen

So, what’s good about overseas outsourcing?

I can find lots of things that are bad about it for the majority of our populations and for our countries as wholes – fewer jobs, net social welfare cost increases as a result, loss of skills, loss of security in the form of control over manufacturing resources and so on. I would also link the whole thing to the general malaise of the UK at least – the growth of a significant group of people who have become rejects from our society, who formerly could get a reasonable unskilled job but now can’t, because the job has gone overseas and what’s left is either out of their reach or doesn’t pay as well as welfare – and so are actively rejecting our society.

The only aspects I can see benefit in are in terms of reduced inflation – goods made overseas are imported at low cost and sold at low price (UK inflation was kept under control for a while by virtue of Chinese imports), and in terms of huge profits for those involved in outsourcing. These huge profits make our performance look better perhaps, and the idea is that taxes paid on them makes up for the downsides in the first paragraph – but it doesn’t have to work out that way for corporations with inventive accounting and declaration methodologies. And of course, one cannot put a price on the wasted lives of those who have become rejects from the workplace or the loss of security involved in reliance on distant manufacturing for our needs. And further, once the skills are gone, they will be gone forever – no going back.

So, does anyone have any good arguments as to why overseas outsourcing is a good thing for we ordinary folk? I’m thinking, hoping, that there must be something?

E

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ORIGINAL: OrionTheWolf

The only good I have seen come from it: keeps a failing company in business so that the non-outsourced jobs are still there. One of my clients refused to outsource, and they closed their doors last year, with over 200+ jobs lost. Here in the US at least, the consumer wants the cheapest product available, and once a competitor outsources then how can others stay in business?

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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen

So, does anyone have any good arguments as to why overseas outsourcing is a good thing for we ordinary folk? I’m thinking, hoping, that there must be something?

E

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ORIGINAL: UtopianRanger

I'm sure you could make a case that it both sets up a framework and facilitates improvements /modernization in that third world country’s infrastructure.  

But in terms of the market being outsourced, it's ''classic race to the bottom mentality.'' Those in the market being outsourced, are essentially making themselves poorer in order to raise the emerging market up.

On the whole, clearly America has become a much poorer nation since it's lost its manufacturing base.

- R

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ORIGINAL: marsman

I think that outsourcing is one of the causes of the so called "housing credit" problem.

If average middle class people do not have good paying jobs, then they cannot pay off large mortgages.

Henry Ford figured this out a century ago. He always paid his workers enough to be able to afford to buy a car.

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ORIGINAL: SugarMyChurro
LadyEllen, you just need to retrain into some kind of higher level brain job for better pay.

Yeah, that's the ticket...!

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ORIGINAL: SugarMyChurro

I think we are looking to the free markets to resolve all of these issues.



LadyEllen, you just need to retrain into some kind of higher level brain job for better pay.

Yeah, that's the ticket...!