Americans need to learn about this practice. It doesn’t affect many yet, and a lot of people just think, “oh those IT people are overpaid anyway”, just as the IT people used to think “oh, those manufacturing people are overpaid anyway”.
It is the economic version of the old “First they came for the Jews...” meme.
The only way to defeat socialism in America is with jobs that become careers that become retirements. Without that, the young people will keep looking to Bernie and Fellow Travelers as their only hope for a future that doesn’t involve eating rat on a stick or Soylent Green.
The classic monolithic career and retirement is ONE way to address the issue; however even it came about because of larger factors beyond the scenes.
America lost its religion, in more ways than one. Our new situation is sometimes marked with hair-trigger antsiness. Something goes sour in the last financial quarter — off must come someone’s head. The idea of strategic sacrifices is more and more rare.
I work in IT and have seen this up close. It is one reason I chose to take a civil service job after 20 years in private industry (and nothing to show for it).
I can’t tell you how many people do not know about this issue. In fact, my sister in law, who works in a federal healthcare job, all but called me a liar when I explained what employers did. She said, “That cannot be possible.”
OH this is already effecting everyday American.. almost all you your medical insurance claims are bening done in India. millions of americans have been layed off in the health insurance industry for the cheaper indians to pay the claims...