Comment Re:Stop Being Selfish!! (Score 1) 686
Hum. Selfish you say... but is it?
Sending jobs overseas typically does little to improve the living conditions where the factory eventually ends up. Typically, it only increases an area's dependance on an outside source for employment, I would consider that a disservice to the citizens of that country.
Consider that most jobs - manufacturing especially - are outsourced to take advantage of an area's lower standards of living - lower wages, lower health standards, lower environmental standards. It is in the outsourcing company's best (financial) interests to maintain these lower standards, not help to improve them.
Perhaps, for some, the primary motivation to curb this trend of outsourced labor is selfish. However, I believe there is a strong case to be made that outsourcing labor is typically an immoral action that restricts, not liberates, it's objects.
Personally, I would have no problem with outsourcing if the companies were held to the same standards as they would be in the United States. But, at that point, what incentive would there be to move jobs out of the US?
Sending jobs overseas typically does little to improve the living conditions where the factory eventually ends up. Typically, it only increases an area's dependance on an outside source for employment, I would consider that a disservice to the citizens of that country.
Consider that most jobs - manufacturing especially - are outsourced to take advantage of an area's lower standards of living - lower wages, lower health standards, lower environmental standards. It is in the outsourcing company's best (financial) interests to maintain these lower standards, not help to improve them.
Perhaps, for some, the primary motivation to curb this trend of outsourced labor is selfish. However, I believe there is a strong case to be made that outsourcing labor is typically an immoral action that restricts, not liberates, it's objects.
Personally, I would have no problem with outsourcing if the companies were held to the same standards as they would be in the United States. But, at that point, what incentive would there be to move jobs out of the US?
