Benefits of outsourcing to the economy.

[The One and Only...]

Originally Posted by AChimp

Here's where all the naivete that hides behind your chubby little face shines through especially brightly.

You have no concept of how much training goes into a "labor job" because you've never held a real job. You should pick up some vocational courses (of which I doubt your privately-endowed, middle-class suburban public school offers very many). I'm surprised your bankrupt parents didn't send your ass out to deliver papers every day so you could have your three bowls of Corn Puffs for breakfast.

Suppose you are trained as a worker on a particular kind of industrial press. That's all you operate, you're really good at it, and you've been doing it for 15 years. Then you find out that your job has been moved to Mexico because someone there will do it for 10x less than you and not ask for lunch breaks. No other company for five states in all directions uses the same press, and no one is looking for workers, either. What now? You have to retrain and start at the bottom of the ladder all over again, throwing away all those years of brain capital you've accumulated.

Not to mention the ENTIRE tech industry. You need a university degree to work successfully in that field.

You don't know anything about trade theory, do you?

Labor jobs requiring a high entry-level education base - no matter what that education may be in - are highly unlikely to be outsourced. Ones which require much less entry education and may require higher levels of continuing education to keep up with technological advancements are far more likely to be. So saying that jobs in which years of training to become skilled at doing are going to be outsourced has very little basis.

There's another thing you need to know as well, namely that it's far more likely for a corporation to outsource new jobs created during business expansion than existing ones. The biggest critique of outsourcing is based around the argument that it somehow slows job growth, not increases job loss. So it's quite possible that Mr. Worker won't lose his job in the first place.

Just because you're proficient with an industrial press doesn't mean you can't adapt to a new work environment. Society progresses. Are you saying we should still be telegraphing people because the development of the phone displaced workers who produced the former? I certainly hope not.

LOL!

If that wasn't such a stupid, pompous thing to say, it would go in my signature.

This just goes to show exactly how little experience you have in these matters, yet here you are running your fat little fingers off about them.

Would you rather work on construction for $20/hour, 12 hours a day, 4 days a week OR $5.15/hour, 4 hours a day for 5 days a week. Now imagine you have two fat little kids such as yourself that love Corn Puffs as much as you do.

I think I can guess what a fatbody like you would pick.

That's the most retarded example I've ever heard.

You're talking about construction jobs. How the hell are construction jobs going to be outsourced? Oh, that's right, THEY AREN'T. What are the big bad corporations going to do, fly in buildings built by Nicaraguans? I don't think so.

With the exception of Wal-Mart being investigated for not properly paying their workers and with holding benefits and the back-breaking labor being unionized and paying well. Some people would prefer those jobs to working at wal-mart. Not everyone is going to go to college and not many can live off minimum wage, especially with a family.

Wal-Mart is also an extreme example. By and large, anybody with a freakin high school diploma can find a better place to work.

IT'S OKAY, GUYS. I HAVE THINGS UNDER CONTROL.

OAO is currently nursing a shredded asshole. He won't be able to post for several days, whereupon he will forget that a thread like this ever happened. :O

Actually, I think I can manage to type while I nurse your ass.