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Do you two think this practice should be abolished?

No.

Nor do I say that offshore outsourcing should be abolished.

Now, I have a question for you, my high-school chum: If almost all the jobs related to manufacturing are nearly wiped-out as a profession in America; and if we are offshoring (and thusly not doing) accounting, engineering, software, call-center work, reading and interpreting medical data, financial planning, and soon enough medical doctor and lawyering work; and if immigrants are doing transportation, agriculture, and the remaining other low-tech work; and if robotics will be completely eliminating 90% of retail sales jobs with RFID technology and self-checkout lanes.....

.....what will we be doing?

Now, I have a question for you, my high-school chum: If almost all the jobs related to manufacturing are nearly wiped-out as a profession in America; and if we are offshoring (and thusly not doing) accounting, engineering, software, call-center work, reading and interpreting medical data, financial planning, and soon enough medical doctor and lawyering work; and if immigrants are doing transportation, agriculture, and the remaining other low-tech work; and if robotics will be completely eliminating 90% of retail sales jobs with RFID technology and self-checkout lanes.....

.....what will we be doing?

The most successful will be managing those businesses and be trying to find new and better things from the opprotunities that spring up and not lamenting their so-called salad days of going into work 9-5 at a desk job. Look I lived through this type of thing before when I was teen in the Pittsburgh area in the late 70's and early 80's when the steel mills shut down. The whiniest mill workers were all lamenting how the "Japs" had taken away their good paying jobs and how that they couldn't pilfer tools from the mill and make 30g pushing a broom, others moved on and prospered.

The area survived, because people found new opportunities, even with the incessant moaning of those who wistfully wished for a time that has passed.

This has happened all through recent human history. Maybe you should do a google search of the British Luddite movement.

.....what will we be doing?

Something else.

Now, I have a question for you, my high-school chum: If almost all the jobs related to manufacturing are nearly wiped-out as a profession in America; and if we are offshoring (and thusly not doing) accounting, engineering, software, call-center work, reading and interpreting medical data, financial planning, and soon enough medical doctor and lawyering work; and if immigrants are doing transportation, agriculture, and the remaining other low-tech work; and if robotics will be completely eliminating 90% of retail sales jobs with RFID technology and self-checkout lanes..... .....what will we be doing?

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You will be sitting poor and out of work listening to sadist such as Dane and others mocking you.

We'll be free to write poetry and such like the Ancient Romans.

.....what will we be doing?

Painting houses and cleaning toilets.

Actually, plumbing and carpentry are looking mighty tempting these days.

.....what will we be doing?

You ask this of a person you just demeaned as a "high-school chum"?

Problem with people like you is that you expect everyone to do your thinking for you. No wonder: you're not even in the driver's seat of your own life's success.

And you still feel the need to consult the advice from "high school chums." tisk tisk

You and whiners like you are your own worst enemies.

"If almost all the jobs related to manufacturing are nearly wiped-out as a profession in America; and if we are offshoring (and thusly not doing) accounting, engineering, software, call-center work, reading and interpreting medical data, financial planning, and soon enough medical doctor and lawyering work; and if immigrants are doing transportation, agriculture, and the remaining other low-tech work; and if robotics will be completely eliminating 90% of retail sales jobs with RFID technology and self-checkout lanes..... .....what will we be doing?" - Lazmataz

BTTT

.....what will we be doing?

Getting into the rap business?
I just saw where rapper Sean "P Diddy" Combs is spending his time these days cruising around the Mediterranean aboard his 181-foot luxury yacht at a cost of $40,000 a day.

And have you seen Eminem's pad?