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I think outsourcing of services and production jobs to low-cost countries is the major problem, cheaper labour make people obsolete,not technology.
by hkon 11y ago
I think outsourcing of services and production jobs to low-cost countries is the major problem, cheaper labour make people obsolete,not technology.
- pink_dinner 11y agoThe genie is out of the bottle. We created a cheap and easy way to communicate with anyone in the world, which also means an easy way to reach inexpensive labor markets. There isn't really anything we can do about it. Creating all the laws in the world will only ensure the mass exodus of companies that want to compete globally. Workers need to give a company a reason to hire them.
- JamilD 11y agoCheaper foreign labour doesn't make people obsolete. It makes blue-collar workers in the West obsolete. Technology, in turn, will make that cheaper foreign labour obsolete; outsourcing manufacturing only accelerates the inevitable job losses that will happen. That is not to say that outsourcing is a good thing, but blaming our problems on it ignores a large issue that we will face in the near future.
- alanwatts 11y ago>cheaper labour make people obsolete,not technology. I never thought of it that way. It would be interesting to see the change in average wages for the entire globe over the past 50 years considering how many relatively good paying industrial age jobs have been outsourced to serf and slave labor in "3rd world" areas
- hkmurakami 11y agoIt's gone way up. Global standard of living has never been higher.
- alanwatts 11y agoIndeed but I'm curious about the average wage rather than the standard of living. A decreasing average wage and increasing standard of living would indicate the obsolescence of wage labor.
- ddw 11y agoAnd what allows outsourcing to be achievable? Technology, perhaps?