| theprof00 said: What? I have no fear of the Chinese. I have fear that we are slicing up our own country and selling every piece to the rest of the world. And whoa man easy with the retorts like that. Brutal. Anyhoo, we do get cheap labor out of them so we can make more mone...oh wait, I mean so the company can simply use greater income to open up more venues in emerging markets while keeping all the money out of our country.....and all we have to give China is THE PATENTS AND SOURCE CODING AND TECHNOLOGICAL KNOWHOW TO PRODUCE THINGS THAT WERE INVENTED ONLY A YEAR PRIOR. Yes, in exchange for the cheap labor that never sees a single benefit to our country, other countries blossom their own domestic product, creating jobs to produce their own replicas of the products our companies charge us top dollar for a fraction of the price. WOWZERS I am so happy that apple decided to save 40$ on every iPad they make in China as opposed to making them in the US, post record profits, and keep tens of thousands of jobs, and hundreds of millions of dollars out of our economy, so that they could post a bigger profit than they would have, except for the fact that they'd be putting money into peoples hands who could then buy their product...derp. You know what's happening here badger? China is disrupting us. No no, you fools, it's fine...Let them have the seamstress jobs. |
Of course, the actual trend is that labor costs are rising in China and jobs are starting to be reshored, and that's only going to accelerate. Most of the people crying about "lost" jobs, like the aforementioned Senator Gollum, would never fucking dream of doing those shit jobs anyway. Despite all the rhetoric about U.S. manufacturing being hollowed out, production has risen about 50 percent in the last decade. That's a far bigger issue - it takes fewer workers to manufacture more goods, and yet I don't exactly see how that's a bad thing unless you think paying people to dig holes and fill them back creates real value and would be a fine thing to build an economy around.
Outsourcing does not create a net loss of jobs. Sure, it means that American workers will have to be adaptive, but it also means an opportunity to learn to design new goods rather than to sit around putting erasers on pencils or whatever. Hm, I wonder what an economy that doesn't outsource even looks like... oh, yeah. North Korea.
