Bush needs to get Outsourced so he'd really understand what it feels like
I read on CNN's web site today where Bush said that losing jobs to other countries was good for us. But I've never heard a convincing argument why.
I lost my job to India. I even trained them how to do it. When I do get another job, if I do, it will almost definitely be for less money. So the difference is a gain for India, or at least its a gain for my former company. Its a loss for me and my family.
The most frequent argument I've heard for outsourcing is that, with the additional profits companies make, they will be able to hire more people. But that didn't happen with my company. Oh sure, the CEO got more money and the execs all got raises too, but our department, our whole building, just kept on laying off more and more and more people. In fact the company as a whole shrank and apparently continues to shrink to this day. Fewer people are expected to do more and more work, unless their job gets outsourced, in which case the outsourced company can put more people on the job because they pay them one-tenth what we're paid.
And there is the main fallacy to the outsourcing argument. We Americans are told that we're just not being competitive enough to win out over the foreign employees. But think about this:
If a foreign employee is paid one-tenth what I am paid, then the foreign companies could set five people to do what I did, still collectively paying them half what I was paid. I would have to do the work of five people just to match their effort, and I would still be paid twice what those five got. No, what would instead happen is that my company could pay the five people to do my job, lay me off, and use half my salary to buy the CEO's grandkids nice gold-encrusted bicycles. How nice.
There is no human way possible for an American to compete with foreign workers until either their cost of living rises, causing their salaries to rise, or our cost of living drops, meaning we all become poor. Only then would we accept salaries that low. Because there was no other choice.
So Bush intends for all of us in the middle-class to be poor.
Or should I say, all the corporate CEOs, who do Bush's thinking for him, intend for us to be poor.
What a great thing it is to be an American worker now.
I lost my job to India. I even trained them how to do it. When I do get another job, if I do, it will almost definitely be for less money. So the difference is a gain for India, or at least its a gain for my former company. Its a loss for me and my family.
The most frequent argument I've heard for outsourcing is that, with the additional profits companies make, they will be able to hire more people. But that didn't happen with my company. Oh sure, the CEO got more money and the execs all got raises too, but our department, our whole building, just kept on laying off more and more and more people. In fact the company as a whole shrank and apparently continues to shrink to this day. Fewer people are expected to do more and more work, unless their job gets outsourced, in which case the outsourced company can put more people on the job because they pay them one-tenth what we're paid.
And there is the main fallacy to the outsourcing argument. We Americans are told that we're just not being competitive enough to win out over the foreign employees. But think about this:
If a foreign employee is paid one-tenth what I am paid, then the foreign companies could set five people to do what I did, still collectively paying them half what I was paid. I would have to do the work of five people just to match their effort, and I would still be paid twice what those five got. No, what would instead happen is that my company could pay the five people to do my job, lay me off, and use half my salary to buy the CEO's grandkids nice gold-encrusted bicycles. How nice.
There is no human way possible for an American to compete with foreign workers until either their cost of living rises, causing their salaries to rise, or our cost of living drops, meaning we all become poor. Only then would we accept salaries that low. Because there was no other choice.
So Bush intends for all of us in the middle-class to be poor.
Or should I say, all the corporate CEOs, who do Bush's thinking for him, intend for us to be poor.
What a great thing it is to be an American worker now.
posted by JohnR at
11:15 PM
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