No Jobs -- Blame Asia
Or not -- it's easy to find a scapegoat and blame North American economic recovery on them. Just look at American politicians to gauge whether outsourcing is bad or not. If they say it's bad during an election year, then it mustn't be so. Politicians are lairs by design, and they're playing on fears. Outsourcing is not bad. In the 90s, manufacturing of high tech commodities were outsourced to Asia, and it resulted in lower prices, increase demand and the IT boom. Why shouldn't that happen with services and software? That's not to say there isn't pain right now -- there's lots of pain. Jobs are not being created at the rate you would expect from the recovery -- but that doesn't mean they're going offshore. Jobs are not being created because business have achieved a level of efficiency unheard of in the past -- and they're not generating new jobs at the rate they used to during previous recoveries. Instead, profits are increasing, and the wealth is being shared with fewer. During the last offshore movement of jobs -- manufacturing jobs -- the recovery and jobs came from the high technology software and services industry -- now however, no one knows where the new jobs are going to come from. Taking that pain, and add the fear of uncertainty, and you have a recipe for a political feeding frenzy. (Although a thought did occur to me -- maybe the next jobs we should look at outsourcing are politicians jobs. I'm sure we could find some Asians that would be happy to run our governments for us.) Read the BusinessWeek article for a different take on outsourcing.
Or not -- it's easy to find a scapegoat and blame North American economic recovery on them. Just look at American politicians to gauge whether outsourcing is bad or not. If they say it's bad during an election year, then it mustn't be so. Politicians are lairs by design, and they're playing on fears. Outsourcing is not bad. In the 90s, manufacturing of high tech commodities were outsourced to Asia, and it resulted in lower prices, increase demand and the IT boom. Why shouldn't that happen with services and software? That's not to say there isn't pain right now -- there's lots of pain. Jobs are not being created at the rate you would expect from the recovery -- but that doesn't mean they're going offshore. Jobs are not being created because business have achieved a level of efficiency unheard of in the past -- and they're not generating new jobs at the rate they used to during previous recoveries. Instead, profits are increasing, and the wealth is being shared with fewer. During the last offshore movement of jobs -- manufacturing jobs -- the recovery and jobs came from the high technology software and services industry -- now however, no one knows where the new jobs are going to come from. Taking that pain, and add the fear of uncertainty, and you have a recipe for a political feeding frenzy. (Although a thought did occur to me -- maybe the next jobs we should look at outsourcing are politicians jobs. I'm sure we could find some Asians that would be happy to run our governments for us.) Read the BusinessWeek article for a different take on outsourcing.
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