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Outsourcing Evolving
Shree writes "An article at NYTimes suggests that the outsourcing mantra is shifting to reasons of hiring global talent, tapping new potential minds and amassing top global human resources. Its not just software companies trying to save a buck by outsourcing; now its about Berkely trying to hookup with Tsinghua University and institutes in India, and companies like IBM and Microsoft looking to setup R&D labs in Asia."
Because our workers and governments demand too much. When companies have to pay high salaries, top benefits, and meet tons of regulations and pay huge taxes on top of everything then what do you expect? It amazes me when I see legislation that attempts to force large companies to dedicate a portion of their payroll expenses to health care costs for workers. Don't our lawmakers understand that this communist style approach to government will only drive businesses away?
If you don't want crime to pay, let the government run it.
Trade is the only fair and just principle under which social relationships can be undertaken. When one party purchases something from another, it is a trade. If you wish to have more, then you must offer something that is worth more. Or else you're what we call a thief, or parasite.
What exactly do companies take from society? Those people walking into McDonald's by their own volition are actually being forced? The employees who get up every morning and work there by their own volition are somehow slaves?
Companies in America have no right to physically compel anyone to do anything. You either accept the terms they offer or you don't. No one is forced to work a sixty hour week. No one forces customers to purchase their goods. You show up at work because you want to. You buy things because you want them. No one is forced to do anything. Communist countries such as China are relevant to this discussion only as an example of what happens when the principle of trade is violated en masse. A perfectly capitalist society would never deal with despots.
You openly advocate holding a gun to the head of anyone who makes more money and demanding payment, at which point you say "accept it and shut the fuck up." Certainly sounds like the brotherly, charitable society of which I'd love to be a part! And incidentally, by this logic, any third-world citizen is entitled the contents of your bank account. Why haven't you sent any and all funds above the bare minimum requirements of your subsistence to Africa?
You actually seem to be more upset that the physical reality of existence compels people to work in order to live. Wouldn't it be great if we could all just hang out and do whatever we wanted all the time without consequence? I say we mandate this a human right: from now on every one has the basic human right to be free of the burden of their bodies, and of living: they have the right to die.
The author of this post has no health insurance, and runs a rapidly growing business that he started with $400 to his name.