> If I'm outsourcing the manufacturing of my toaster to various parties, I still have a hand in specifying the pieces, assuring they meet my requirements, and v

> If I'm outsourcing the manufacturing of my toaster to various parties, I still have a hand in specifying the pieces, assuring they meet my requirements, and verifying they are put together in a way that upholds my brand value and meets customer expectations. Except eventually you can't, other than in very vague, handwavy sense. Engineering specification is a skill, and it dies when manufacturing base moves overseas. You get maybe a decade of transitional time when you both have an oversupply of now unemployed engineer force AND cost savings from doing the actual work elsewhere, but then people change careers and new college students know better.