Who cares? Gobal warming will get us all by then.
now, will people take the precautions necessary and prepare for this coming wave of offshoring? Or will they continue obliviously and not prepare themselves for the potential “loss” of “their” jobs?
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just read in the Inquirer that first year lawyer hires in Philly are going in at $145k. They’ll need competition from somewhere. The reason given for the rates is the incredibly strong economy. First MSM admission of that.
(YOUR COMPANY NAME HERE), Bangalore Branch
It should be illegal for corporate citizens of the world to contribute PAC money to U.S. elections. Only American citizens should be allowed to contibute.
The doom-and-gloomers simply have no explanation how it can be that the unemployment rate is all all-time lows here in America (btw, we are the envy of the rest of the world) even as all our jobs are purportedly being "outsourced" around the world.
I think the fatal flaw with the doom-and-gloomers is that they see employment as a zero-sum game. Move a factory over to China and they simply subtract the jobs lost and make the false assumption that the unemployment rate over here will rise accordingly.
Well Americans (at least not most of them) don't sit around and twiddle their thumbs when they get pink-slipped. Instead, they simply go out and get another job. So right away, it is a wash. But it gets better. Turns out that many of the people losing these dead-end factory jobs realize that they can do so much more with their lives. Their self-confidence improves and for some, their suppressed entrepreneurial abilities come to the surface and they end up being much better off then they were before.
Yes, there are some who think that 40 years in a factory is all they can do and so they get stuck in some bad Bruce Springsteen song. But for many others, losing their blue-collar job is a release and our economy is being fueled with this new entrepreneurial spirit - which is a good thing.
Back in 1920, you would think that working on a farm or a factory or a traveling salesman were about the only options in life for a non-college graduate. Nobody could imagine back then that non-college people could make big bucks opening chains of fast-food restaurants, writing code for video games (not that they'd even know what you were talking about), starting up high-tech companies, inventing new ways of doing things, etc., etc. The possibilities of making money in our economy are endless - whether you start up your own company or work for one that is doing new and innovative things.
But many American's are still stuck in the mindset that it is a bad thing that we are losing low-skill jobs to third-world countries. And yes, I'll have to throw lawyers and accountants into that mix as well. Anybody who thinks you have to be a genius to be a lawyer or accountant are fooling themselves and it is no big loss to have less Americans lawyering and crunching numbers on some Excel spreadsheet.
This is just blowing smoke - horseshit.
What's of interest is the fate of millions of individual citizens. If millions of American jobs go to Indians but the result is that the GPP of both countries increases can we say that both countries benefitted? If protectionism saves most of those jobs but lowers American GDP is that bad?
I surely hope that economists go the way of dinosaurs if this is an example of their thinking...and it is.
Why?
Isn't our Cngress completely infested with lawyers? Aren't something like 2/3rds of Congresscritters lawyers? Say what you want, but they WILL protect their own. The ABA would have a snit-fit, the political lube of cash would be pinched, and pols would roll over like the wh*res they are.
A future with no lawyers or accountants,come on your just trying to make us feel good right ???
The logistics would be staggering.
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A significant problem with this "solution" is one of national security.
If we don't lead the world in technology, we won't have the world's leading military. We won't lead the world in technology if we are largely educating our children to go into trades jobs and telling them not to study the sciences and not to study mathematics.
While this will suit leftists who would like to see our military destroyed, such a foolish strategy will place our children in dangerous straits.
Not necessarily. Exams could be done by a nurse, with the doctor looking at the patient via Internet hi-definition webcam.
Personal service sounds safe until you consider that you need SOMEBODY in the economy producing exportable goods & services to pay for imported goods, otherwise there will be no money to pay personal service workers.
And you gotta think that the next stage for the illegal immigrants increasingly flocking to the construction industry will involve doing plumbing and home repair. The illegal immigrant Fort Dix Jihadis had a roofing business
All knowledge-only jobs will be replaced by AIs within the next 30 years.
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What happens when the Americans return from war duty? Hey! jobs is jobs, they can do howdy duty at Walmart.
I am reminded of Rush-substitute host Tom Sullivan. "Give me the statistics, not anecdotes," he demanded of callers telling of seeing shuttered factories in towns. "The manufacturing portion of the GDP has not changed in decades. There's no major off shoring going on!"
This was a couple of years back.. then he would obliviously tell his version of a three-elderly-women, everybody-can-do-it success story; to wit, an engineer laid off from Aerojet in Sacramento started a very successful business making chocolate candies -- if that ain't anecdotal "proof" then I have no idea. . . . Go figure.
The other thing that infuriates me is that American companies sell things at a lower price to foreign countries.
For example, pharmaceuticals.
A worker in India can work for less in part because American companies charge them less for medicine.
Textbooks:
The same textbooks that American kids pay through the nose for, are sold to foreign countries for a fraction of the price they cost here.
There was a website specializing in selling these cheaper foreign editions to American college students, until the publishers brought suit.
And I don’t know for how many other American products this is true.
Can you imagine: our kids are paying extra for textbooks so the publishers can sell them cheaper to the very people who are learning how to steal our jobs!