Benefits of outsourcing to the economy.

[Anonymous]

Originally Posted by The One and Only...

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

Here's your problem. All you have is theory.

So saying that jobs in which years of training to become skilled at doing are going to be outsourced has very little basis.

He didn't say that at all - his example involved a guy operating a simple piece of machinery for many years. Again, you have no basis in reality for this, or you'd know that most labor businesses have a hierarchy system based on seniorty in relation to their function. If you were a driver at Rite-Aid (drives forklifts) and had your job taken away, you'd be sent back down to the 'picker' level (takes products from one place, puts them in another, usually boxes), which pays far less. You would not be eligible for other low-education-level positions in the factory, because things have changed since you had the driver job, and need to be re-trained to start over again in that field, while your pay suffers. While this example in particular doesn't involve outsourcing, the same consequences apply.

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.

Way to ask a question that doesn't relate to the topic at all. You sure dodged that one, Houdini.

You're talking about construction jobs. How the hell are construction jobs going to be outsourced? Oh, that's right, THEY AREN'T.

He didn't say construction would be outsourced, he said it'd be one of the job options left. I know your screen vibrates with every crunchy mouthful of sugar-coated Apple Jacks you ladle into it, but do try to keep up.

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

No.

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

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