John earns $X per hour doing a certain task and considers himself "underpaid," but it'll be a cold day in hell before he would even think of paying someone else $X per hour to do the same thing. Therefore, John pays Vijay $Y per hour (about 25% of $X) to do it in India, then b!tches and moans when his own job is sent overseas six months later.
Landscaping is a good example. Ask yourself how much you are willing to pay someone to mow your lawn, then ask yourself how much you would charge to do the same job. The difference between these two numbers (and it is a huge difference, if you are honest about it) is what I call a "credibility gap" on this issue. In the midst of all the complaints about "corporate greed" in this country, we seem to have overlooked the fact that "consumer greed" is the single biggest factor in driving these jobs overseas.
I don't believe I've seen a truer nugget of wisdom on one of these "outsourced" threads, than what you've just written above.