I think most people would choose something more fulfilling than pictures of cats.

I know I would. I have one recent software idea that I don't have time to work on.
My wife recently did a project collecting books from authors to donate to kids in the Philippines as part of a thing my Church did.
My kids and I volunteer at food bank activities often.

The things I could do if I didn't *have* to work.
And note, I would still work. I love my job, most of the time.

Yeah, sure.
But why can they sell for that price? Because enough people had it to spend and wanted it.
Why did they have it to spend? Because they *made* enough money. Wages. Higher wages.
Since these companies send the work overseas, fewer people here have that much money.

The owners of America are basically encouraging wage arbitrage because they can pick up a good number more dollars doing it.

But don't forget, markets work. As we ship more of the jobs overseas, the average wage here will fall. ( is this not what we are seeing? )
( we will ignore the pain of those who are losing their jobs, unimportant )
The ability to spend will fall.
Demand will fall. People will lose jobs due to layoffs, average wages fall some more,
Places that used to do things here will ( to the extent possible ) decline in doing so.
Wages will, in the longer term, adjust out to some kind of average.
Prices here will have to fall in line with the wages. Again, in the longer term.
Greed will cause the prices to be sticky for some period of time.
And lower cost places will be chased when/if the wages in a particular place overseas begin to climb.
Yes, factory build costs will make that sticky, but in the longer term, it will happen. ( and are we not seeing it? )
Think we will be allowed to sell stuff ( free market, man ) in those overseas places when wages have averaged out? ( arent there already restrictions? )
I don't think so. If you do, I'd like to know why you think that.

So, yeah, it is "working" for them, by giving the shaft to the customers they sell to.
Strikes me as stupid.

"What makes your perception even remotely valid?"

Nice. What makes it invalid? What makes yours better?
I see and hear about companies outsourcing( electronics, software ). I don't see the pricing for their products falling.
I infer from this that they do intend to sell at the higher prices, in line with higher wages.

"Which are growing at a rapid rate and for which there are a lot more people. Basically, the economy is moving from the developed world to the rest of the world."

They are growing, but what I see and hear is that they are not in line with pay structures in America ( they don't have to be, cost of living is lower in the developing world )

I live in San Diego ( Poway, now ), there are *tons* of good developers here ( myself included ).
( and a lot of mediocre ones too... Like anywhere ).

I have participated in the interview process at several of the companies I worked at here, and I would say we have a good talent pool ( LA's is probably larger, but who wants to live there... :-) ). It might be hard to recruit people out these days, but before the recent drop, people were fluttering here, there and everywhere.

In developing nations, sure they want to compete there.

But they still want to charge amounts commensurate with American wages when selling here.
Or why does the iPhone cost less than 200 to build, but they still charge 600 for them.
If they were pricing for the developing nations, they would be less expensive.

"Those customers aren't going to be its employees"

That isn't what it looks like from where I sit.

"And it can always sell to the developing world."

Yes, but only at prices confirming to the developing world's wages.

Yet, even with Obama in office, the misdeed was discovered and is being pursued.

Corporation? Murdoch playing with people's phones. Is that corporation investigating, or covering up?
If there was no government intervention we would never have known.

I would think your response is "NSA, Snowden". Good point.
Mine is, I wish we had a real functioning democracy.

Read your sig. Applies to corporations also. But corporate power is a bit more concentrated and easier to abuse.

Yes, you should have a career strategy. And it should be a good one.
But seriously, we need to

A, do our jobs
B, keep our skills up to date
C, manage this career, guessing properly about where things are going next and figuring out how to chase it without letting down the side on A and B.

And woe betide you if you dare add recreation and / or family to this.

And *everyone* needs to do this. I think most are going to do an average job on this.

And how do you know? The guys that get to choose what the twists and turns are going to be, they don't communicate reliably.

"company's best interests"

Does that company want to sell it's product at "American" prices? Then it needs people ( customers, you know ) that *earn* "American" wages.

"Not true. A factory is not built where the demand is, but where the labor is available. The goods can be shipped. When those factory workers spend their wages, plenty of secondary jobs are produced as well."

The factory will be built where the labor is cheap and available, true, but the demand must exist *somewhere* first.

"Despite high unemployment in the state, most Georgians don't want such back-breaking jobs"

    What are the rates of pay on this? It is truly that they don't want the job, or they don't want the job at the offered rate?
    The market works. Pay will draw people into a field. We saw that in the .com boom, everyone and his brother was trying to get into programming.
    Yes, the product will be more expensive. So what? Why is it that so many ( maybe not you ) are "let the market work" until it means pay rates will rise?

"nor do they have the necessary skills"

    Can I be hearing this correctly? I am sure there is a technique, and things to know, but the immigrants picked it all up.
    With a bit of time, so can even an American ( sarcasm, for those impaired, And this is not disparagement of the immigrants, there is no race that is intrinsically better or worse than any other )

"According to Dick Minor, president of the Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Grower's Association"

    He might have a bias...

"immigrants "are pretty much professional harvesters" with many specializing in particular crops""

    They were not born with this knowledge. Most anyone else on planet earth could pick ( pun intended ) up this skill set.

Where does that lead?

Little to no power does not last long. Someone will grab for it.
You are seeing it now.

Because they don't bother to think and to do the research.
Voters, in general, have "their team", and the believe whatever comes out of the politicians mouths.
Sheep is an apt description.
Plato had his philosopher king concept. A good one, IIRC. But we all need to be that in a functioning Democracy.

Why the jump from spending caps to censoring?

Can you see that no spending caps is much more "censoring", for a much larger group of people?

How can people help?