Well, the reality is that the U.S. pay scale must adjust in order to be competitive with the rest of the world.
Car Co.s have had to do it and employees will need to do this as well.
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perhaps the rest of the world needs to increase wages to match US wages?
In the area of Large scale oil refineries, LNG plants and the like, this is exactly what is happening in the Cos. that design these.Back in the early 1990's Mexico was the first destination, higher wages and drug related violence shut that down. Now much of work done in India has migrated to Eastern Europe and Manila as well as Vietnam.
China is out because they steal and do not speak English
It happens much faster than people realize. The really cheap foreigners have no experience. At one point one company I was working for had to outsource three deep because as soon as they had six months experience they were gone. In 18 months they were here making sizable percentage of US workers' wages. A few years after that, a lot of them were citizens making US wages.
To keep the gravy train of cheap labor, companies like IBM have to keep mining the bottom of the barrel, and boy do they. IBM has more in common with Nigerian scam artists than a technology company at this point.
You have a big separation at this point between American companies with an actual staff, talent, and core competencies, and Amazon-like "storefronts" whose only skill is outsourcing.