*first thread start ever, in any forum!*
The thoughts of outsourcing jobs have been running through my head recently...
Do you feel America is losing power by outsourcing jobs? This applied originally to manufacturing and production but now is slowly rolling over to more and more parts of the service sector, and is ABUNDENTLY apparent in our industry, IT. I even have a client now who is headed to Romania to start a software development company, utilizing individuals who will do $4,000 projects for $100.00.
Some opinions hold onto the idea that..
"Every job outsourced overseas, America looses a small part of their world power"
All in all, it seems that as the American middle class begins taking lower waged jobs (an experienced technician or entry level programmer making $20 per hour now can lose a job to outsourcing and take a job for $9 at Wal-Mart), American outsourcing actually DEVELOPS in some way, a new middle class in another country. This, in effect, hits America from two angles...by losing an American job, which lowers the American per capita/overall GDP, as well as giving a small bit of that income to another country, in effect losing a portion of ?power.?
Already there is a dent, as I'm graduating from college in 6 months and it seems retarded that I ever went. The numbers of college students increases and increases and job opportunities get fewer and fewer, seems ironic? Companies are now starting to outsource you tax services, i.e. foreigners handling our complex tax forms at the end of year. Have we gone mad?
Either case, if America wants to hold power, seems as though some serious political intervention is necessary to restrict outsourcing to keep American corporations competing directly against one another, not a race to save costs by any means possible. This would raise productivity, increase government revenues from taxation, create more efficient pricing wars, etc? Pre-civil war political intervention in terms of European control over shipping?.ring a bell?
I'd like to hear opinions on this one!
FF!
*please note: this no way biases the development, or advancement of any other country, just an observation of current trend in American and International Economic trends*
The thoughts of outsourcing jobs have been running through my head recently...
Do you feel America is losing power by outsourcing jobs? This applied originally to manufacturing and production but now is slowly rolling over to more and more parts of the service sector, and is ABUNDENTLY apparent in our industry, IT. I even have a client now who is headed to Romania to start a software development company, utilizing individuals who will do $4,000 projects for $100.00.
Some opinions hold onto the idea that..
"Every job outsourced overseas, America looses a small part of their world power"
All in all, it seems that as the American middle class begins taking lower waged jobs (an experienced technician or entry level programmer making $20 per hour now can lose a job to outsourcing and take a job for $9 at Wal-Mart), American outsourcing actually DEVELOPS in some way, a new middle class in another country. This, in effect, hits America from two angles...by losing an American job, which lowers the American per capita/overall GDP, as well as giving a small bit of that income to another country, in effect losing a portion of ?power.?
Already there is a dent, as I'm graduating from college in 6 months and it seems retarded that I ever went. The numbers of college students increases and increases and job opportunities get fewer and fewer, seems ironic? Companies are now starting to outsource you tax services, i.e. foreigners handling our complex tax forms at the end of year. Have we gone mad?
Either case, if America wants to hold power, seems as though some serious political intervention is necessary to restrict outsourcing to keep American corporations competing directly against one another, not a race to save costs by any means possible. This would raise productivity, increase government revenues from taxation, create more efficient pricing wars, etc? Pre-civil war political intervention in terms of European control over shipping?.ring a bell?
I'd like to hear opinions on this one!
FF!
*please note: this no way biases the development, or advancement of any other country, just an observation of current trend in American and International Economic trends*
You crack me up.
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