2010-09-17, 02:45 AM
larmie Wrote:I'm pissed off about outsourcing (but not for its ethics but w/e). Shouldn't companies that use public roads, employ people who received public education/private education w/ public funds, and rely on the government for running its businesses and protecting their assets be liable to hire citizens of that country? A company should be forced to hire nationals unless they cannot operate using nationals, in which case they should GTFO and move to India. You're taking money you earn from domestic customers and paying off international employees who pay taxes to other governments. I call bullshit.
But, would we live with the higher costs? Many people say "I hate offshoring" (it is offshoring that you're speaking of by the way, not outsourcing), but they don't realize they have what they have do to it. Without offshoring we wouldn't be able to go to a Wal-Mart and save boatloads of money on everything we buy. We, as nations, profit as a whole by having poorer countries do our work. If anything, the real ethical problem here is profiterring off cheap labor - not taking jobs away from an affluent country. We exploit the labor of poorer peoples in order to have a richer, better standard of living.