Thursday, March 25, 2004
Outsourcing is resulting from education deficiency?
And although the article touched on the issues of litigation, health care, and expensive wages, it fails to fully comprehend the issue and blames it on something that has very little to do with the problem--the lack of good education of America's workers.
If education were really to blame, and the lack of people skilled in technical areas, then why are companies fleeing California to other states in the United States? After all, it does have highly-skilled, highly-educated workers; as Arnold Beichman suggestions, its because of the costs of running a business in the state--not because of lack of education of the workers.
As for the last quote of the Wired article: "About the only job these profit-hungry, blood-sucking corporations aren't going to be able to outsource is the kind that requires you to physically be there in order to serve up those burgers and fries to customers."
I am quite astonished. Many people like to blame outsourcing for taking away jobs from people, but hardly ever do I hear about them complaining about the ways illegal and mass immigration takes away jobs from people. However, that is beside the point. Although outsourcing does move jobs offshore, it offers some benefits. It allows for cheaper production thus making things more cost efficient for the consumer. Likewise, it also promotes higher positions within the US. While all the labour jobs are going overseas, the management positions and such other positions remain. These jobs tend to be pay more, and as such the average worker in the United States earns more money.
But also, this quote indicates some ignorance--or perhaps, some emotions--on the part of the speaker. Jobs will remain in the US that must have direct contact with the customer--jobs like health care providers, teachers/professors, and so forth and so on. Not all of these jobs are menial--like flipping burgers.
Come now people. If you want government intervention to preventjobs from flowing to foreign countries, eliminate the many things that cause the US to be #10 at the Heritage Foundation's Free Countries. The key is not more education and more funding, but less regulation, less taxation.
Garrett, from the Arizona Growler, brought this article to my attention--dealing with offshore outsourcing in relation to education and government funding.
And although the article touched on the issues of litigation, health care, and expensive wages, it fails to fully comprehend the issue and blames it on something that has very little to do with the problem--the lack of good education of America's workers.
If education were really to blame, and the lack of people skilled in technical areas, then why are companies fleeing California to other states in the United States? After all, it does have highly-skilled, highly-educated workers; as Arnold Beichman suggestions, its because of the costs of running a business in the state--not because of lack of education of the workers.
As for the last quote of the Wired article: "About the only job these profit-hungry, blood-sucking corporations aren't going to be able to outsource is the kind that requires you to physically be there in order to serve up those burgers and fries to customers."
I am quite astonished. Many people like to blame outsourcing for taking away jobs from people, but hardly ever do I hear about them complaining about the ways illegal and mass immigration takes away jobs from people. However, that is beside the point. Although outsourcing does move jobs offshore, it offers some benefits. It allows for cheaper production thus making things more cost efficient for the consumer. Likewise, it also promotes higher positions within the US. While all the labour jobs are going overseas, the management positions and such other positions remain. These jobs tend to be pay more, and as such the average worker in the United States earns more money.
But also, this quote indicates some ignorance--or perhaps, some emotions--on the part of the speaker. Jobs will remain in the US that must have direct contact with the customer--jobs like health care providers, teachers/professors, and so forth and so on. Not all of these jobs are menial--like flipping burgers.
Come now people. If you want government intervention to preventjobs from flowing to foreign countries, eliminate the many things that cause the US to be #10 at the Heritage Foundation's Free Countries. The key is not more education and more funding, but less regulation, less taxation.
posted by Laura Keslar at 1:48 AM | |
