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Posted by: xImNotProx
I'd rather have jobs than lower prices.
People who lost their jobs in the manufacturing industry because of outsourcing end up having to get low wage service industry jobs. They also have to compete with recent college graduates and high school kids for those jobs. That leads to higher unemployment for basically everyone.
These people could get retrained or go to college, but that isn't viable in the real world. Paying for a decent college along with supporting a family is next to impossible. These people could go to a cheap college or a community college, but those schools may not be adequately accredited. Companies would also be more likely to hire someone who went to a great and expensive college.
Outsourcing also hurts the children of the laid off workers. They may not be getting a lot of money for college because their parents may have to pay to go to college themselves. They could get a job in the service industry, but they would have to compete with laid-off workers and other students.
College graduates are even having to resort to service industry jobs because the job market is so horrible. The loss in manufacturing jobs is causing more people to go to college. Bachelors degrees are basically the equivalent of a high school degree now because of the large amount of college graduates.
In the past college graduates were guaranteed a job, but now that's not the case. They end up having to get the same service industry jobs that laid-off workers and high school kids have to get.
In the past people could get great paying manufacturing jobs right out of high school, but that's not the case anymore. It's hurting everyone in the country in some way.
I don't think average workers or the ones who were laid off care about economic theories that support outsourcing. They care about jobs and being able to support their families.
And what of the companies selling to global markets? When this argument comes up, and you are raising valid concerns, the benefits to domestic exporters to completely ignored.
Now as for those workers that lose their jobs because of outsourcing there are practical measures actually in play. One is that the loss of wages is made up for by the government. The other is retraining, which you seem to take issue with, does in fact work.
Like I said you're raising real problems. Your solution though is a feeble attempt to "go back to the way things were". I'm sorry but you're not doing that. It's not even outsourcing that's killing many manufacturing jobs it's changing technology. We are in the midst of what will be known as the third Industrial Revolution. What many countries need is adequate systems built on new ideas to train the workforce of tomorrow, not yesterday.