Isn't so-called 'job outsourcing' to foreign countries really a good way to re-distribute wealth?

Question

Is it only North Americans (north of the Rio Grande) and Western Europeans who deserve the 'good jobs'? 2/3 of the world is in poverty, why not out-source?

I am sorry, no self respecting proletariat (of which I am a proud one) would consider any job with a 'job bank' a real job. Unions have failed their founders, failed their country, and worst of all, failed their members.

Answer 1

that's a deep issue, impossible to cover in this forum.
i suppose outsourcing redistributes wealth by moving money to parts of the world that had little money before American manufacturing landed on them. the arguement has a long list of positive and negative results, but the reality is the surviving businesses that produce goods overseas and sell them cheap here have already outsourced the jobs, the shift is done, the jobs are gone, the plant has been demolished.

well what about the American worker? we need to better educate the population and embrace the globalized world and the subsequent global economy with all the new technological jobs. in order to survive. i'm also working class- homeowner-father & husband.

Answer 2

Unions...Unions are the members!!! Remember Strength in Unity? I was raised, fed, educated and employed by Union brother and sisterhood. I have watched as the last few Administrations of Capitalist Ideals have decimated the Unions, by hacking away at Benefits, Wages, and the very respect all employees deserve. Outsourcing jobs takes away from one work force and rapes another. What makes anyone think these people that the jobs are going to, are getting rich, or at least making a wage enabling them to advance past the poverty level? Unions meant keeping the Employer in check...Fair days pay for a fair days work. Outsourcing, means the Employers get richer, while the Employee ( slave laborer) remains oppressed and broke. Do these laborers receive benefits or a fair wage?, NO! Does Outsourcing create affordable prices at the register? NO!, Does Outsourcing leave anything but Service Jobs in the community that once did the manufacturing? NO!

Answer 3

If you're in the country who's outsourcing the jobs, then yes, it would be a great way to redistribute wealth. Since most country's that outsource jobs do have a complete lack of people asking for change on the side of the road, and there are never any starving university students anywhere.

There's no one at all to take the job anyway so hell why not outsource it to some poor needy country where the cost of labor is nice and cheap :D

Answer 4

Outsourcing is taking advantage of the worker to produce the maximum profit. It keeps cheap labor cheap and poor people poor.
US companies are outsourcing to China where workers enjoy no safety regs, No pollution regs, no insurance,draconian work schedules and low pay.
It will ensure 3/3 of the world is in poverty and an elite class firmly entrenched in power.

Answer 5

When outsourcing takes the "good jobs" away from the U.S. and redistributes the wealth to other countries at a loss to the U.S., it is NOT a good idea. The only advantage is to the manufacturer who can make goods cheaper in other countries. It is a lose lose situation for workers worldwide.

Answer 6

Yes! that could be the view of the people of the outsourced country.

For the outsourcing country, it is dumbing down of America (since hi-tech jobs are being sent overseas)

Answer 7

As a free-market capitalist, I loathe protectionism, and see overseas "out-sourcing" as a good way to "structurally shift" industries into areas where labor is more grateful for the opportunity to produce and flourish and prosper.

In overseas "outsourcing", entrepreneurial skill, capital, labor, and facility/land all find each other to reach satisfying relationships and profitable arrangements.

Protectionism, just like forcing businesses to pay artificial minimum and "living" wages, is like coercing a girl to date or marry you; like arguing with and browbeating someone, threatening them, into falling in love with you. It just doesn't work.

Furthermore, protectionism is like a wife covering for an irresponsible drunk, by explaining their absences from work as if they were mere illness, etc; by shielding the alcoholic from the consequences of their own behavior, the drunk is enabled, and never suffers the pain and loss necessary for awakening and self-examination, and change/redemption.

Labor unions too often attempt to enforce this unnatural situation--they forget that their very existence is owed to entrepreneurial risk-takers, and that by trying to hold companies and managements hostage to their demands for standards of living so far above what impoverished others in other parts of the world are eager to enjoy, they sign their own bankruptcy warrant.

Answer 8

Good or bad, depending on whose ox is being gored, job outsourcing is a product of global economics and is here to stay. People that are kvetching about it had better get used to it and improve their capabilities to cope with it.

Answer 9

"Isn't so-called 'job outsourcing' to foreign countries really a good way to re-distribute wealth?...................................."


No! Wealth does not need to be re-distributed ......wealth needs to be earned and developed.