I have a debate this Thursday on outsourcing. I am on the team that is opposed to it. i need help. give me reasons that we should not outsource. the person with some freakin sweet reasons will get 10 big fat juicy points.
2006-12-12 05:05:53 · 2 answers · asked by chewbaccafuzzball 2 in Social Science ➔ Economics
Well, it sucks to be you; it sucks to be your opponent, too... You are about to waste a lot of time debating something completely unimportant...
There is absolutely no evidence that outsourcing has had any significant impact on employment anywhere. The effects that popular press attributes to outsourcing are in fact squarely due to technology; jobs that are supposedly going to China, in reality go to machines. The process is going on worldwide. As a result, China loses manufacturing jobs even faster than the U.S.; between 1995 and 2002, U.S. has lost 11.3% of its manufacturing jobs, China, 15.3%. The fastest loss of manufacturing jobs during that period was in fact observed in Brazil (19.9%)...
Manufacturing is undergoing the same transition agriculture went through. In 1910, about a third of U.S. workforce worked in agricultire; today, it's 3%. Where did the remaining jobs go? They got taken over by tractors and harvesters... In 1962, 27.7% of the U.S. non-farm workforce worked in manufacturing; by 2002, the percentage declined to 11.5%, while the manufacturing sector's contribution to GDP remained roughly the same, about 17%...
2006-12-12 05:43:41 · answer #1 · answered by NC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, I'm on the other side so I really can't help you.
If someone can tell me how it makes sense for an American company to compete internationally by paying US workers $15 an hour + benefits to make something that another international company can make in Bangladesh for $2 a day, please let me know.
The simple fact of the matter is that low skilled manufacturing can be done anywhere. Low skilled manufacturing is no longer a prime area for high wage work. That era is gone, like the days when bringing ice to people, or making buggies and operating livery stables are gone. The world changes, technology advances.
Protectionism only results in harming the american consumer by forcing us to pay artificially high prices, and excludes the American company from competing internationally.
The new area of high wage jobs in America are skilled knowledge and service jobs. Get used to it.
2006-12-12 06:41:05 · answer #2 · answered by Uncle Pennybags 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋