re: #214 sattv4u2

Sorry, but I have a different view on that (outsourcing)

The job is not “yours”. The job belongs to the employer. You may have a skill set at a mutually acceptable wage/ benefit packge that for the time being fills that postion, but at any time it’s the employers discretion as to whether or not he needs that position filled and at that compensatory package

Hey, I’m not saying there aren’t problems with the idea, only that the alternative’s kinda crappy, too. And of course the employer has final say-so on who does or does not fill a position. Again, the free movement of goods and such-like is desirable and inevitable, really, but the effects on domestic wages can be appalling. Simply put, efficiency dictates lower prices in all inputs, and that means shifting functions to cheaper providers wherever practical. The down-side, of course, is for the displaced domestic worker; one can only retool so many times, and, as we see now NO industry is immune to outsourcing. In time, management posts can and will be filled by folk with equal or even superior skills in the PRC or elsewhere, who’ll be quite happy to do the work of their displaced American predecessors for far less pay.

My Chinese bosses predict America’s economy will eventually devolve into a sort of real estate empire, with farmland, hotels, resorts and such as the primary industries, all owned or managed by foreigners, all staffed by immigrants. “America’s gonna be a colony with a hundred masters,” they say. It could happen.