When a corperation goes to Mexico or elsewhere and hires people thier because they are cheaper and they screw - Americans/Canadians - out of a job just to increase their own wages and profits -
Are they guilty of betraying their nation ?
When they hire ilegal OR legal immigrants to drive down wages - is that not a betrayel of the people ?
2007-06-28 18:34:55 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
jeeper_peeper321
You have the right idea - but that sword swings both ways as well and it is time people on both sides of this sword woke up and fast
2007-06-28 18:54:55 · update #1
Yes to both! Outsourcing and hiring immigrants to drive down wages are betrayals of both their nation, and the people! *sm*
2007-06-28 18:54:01 · answer #1 · answered by LadyZania 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I feel many corporations have no choice but to send jobs outside the U.S. If their competitors all take advantage of low cost labor elsewhere, and they stay in the U.S., it won't belong before the entire company is out of business and everyone loses their job. The only way to stop such a thing is through tariffs and regulation of outsourcing, yet this would stifle global economic expansion and American markets, not to mention drive up inflation in this country.
Unfortunately, outsourcing is a necessary evil, and low-skilled jobs in America are starting to run out. Therefore, do well in school, go to college, and get into a career that can't be outsourced.
2007-06-28 18:45:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The basis of capitalism is to employ people in order to make a profit... cheaper labor means bigger profits. If you force a company to employ Americans/Canadians, labor costs increase, which means that the price of the product being produced increases. Consumers don't like price increases.
If you force them to keep prices the same, the employer gets pinched in the middle, which means he will have to lay off workers to keep his profits. If you prevent him from firing anyone, then he has no control over his company and there's no reason for him to risk his money in it if he can't get it out when things go south, which begs the question who will invest in the company to get it going?
Because the owner owns the company, he has control over whom to hire, fire, what to produce, etc., because it's his money that is getting things going. When you remove the incentive of profit, there's no reason for him or any other businessman to invest and government will have to seize control of businesses to run them because they will be the only ones with any incentive (the general welfare of the people). So if following the laws of capitalism is treason, then outsourcers are traitors.
2007-06-28 19:38:33 · answer #3 · answered by Thomas V 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A company's main concern is to make a profit so they can stay in business. If they cannot pay wages in the local labour market and still make a profit, then they have to look elsewhere. After all, if they go broke, nobody's going to have a job anyway. When you buy something, don't you buy the cheapest, regardless of where it was made? Who made your computer?
2007-06-28 18:53:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They are undermining the productivity and lively hood of the nation. Imagine a casino that thrived off the people of the town but did not employ anyone from that town.
The answer to your question is yes.
2007-06-28 19:55:32 · answer #5 · answered by The real Ed-Mike 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We live in a free market economy, Corporations are in no way obligated to employ you. The whole idea of Capitalism is to increase your profits. Would you purposely start a business that you knew would fail economically and would not turn a profit? ( Not unless you are a liberal involved with air america)...
2007-06-28 18:47:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Corporations aren't the traitors. The legislators who passed NAFTA, etc and allowed this country to be sold out are the traitors.
2007-06-28 19:05:02 · answer #7 · answered by hwinnum 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Under no circumstances whatever. The purpose of a business is to create wealth by selling goods to people who are willing to pay for them. It is not to provide employment for anyone, although that is of course a typical effect of being in business.
2007-06-28 18:39:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
If you but a hybrid toyoto car,
is that treason ?
Your taking an america auto worker job when you do.
2007-06-28 18:52:48 · answer #9 · answered by jeeper_peeper321 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it isn't. It is just good business. If you don't like it, that is just too bad. That's basic economics.
2007-06-28 18:51:48 · answer #10 · answered by cyanne2ak 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋