[central_va]

Losing a job due to outsourcing or losing it to technological innovation produces the same result for an individual:

That is like saying losing your wallet is the same as having it stolen at gunpoint.

[VRWCmember]

Losing a job due to outsourcing or losing it to technological innovation produces the same result for an individual:

That is like saying losing your wallet is the same as having it stolen at gunpoint.

Not at all. Demand for labor changes all the time. Some jobs are displaced by foreign competition, or outsourcing, and some are displaced by innovations that make the particular skillset less valuable, but either way if the job is displaced, then the worker is in the same condition of needing to find another job. That might mean the worker needs to develop another skillset in order to get a job for which there is demand.