Study Claims Offshoring Doesn't Cost US Jobs

SwashbucklingCowboy writes "Infoworld has an article up about a survey by the Software & Information Industry Association claiming that offshoring doesn't cost American jobs. The article quotes the executive director of the SIIA as saying, '[Offshoring] was used almost entirely as a form of expansion, not as a replacement.' Well, if a job is created elsewhere that could have been created in the US, isn't that a job lost?"

Comments

Re:every job lost is a job gained.

[xero314]

Even though the parent was modded funny I have to say that he's closer to reality than many people realized. I wish I could find the study, but it was shown once that off shoring can actually cost more than it saves when you add up logistics, and the know fact that you do get what you pay for (pay low and get low quality).

Re:who's saying that?

[drinkypoo]

Sorry, I'm awfully short on patriotism these days. I love the land my country is on but I think as an entity it has done more harm than good.

Ultimately the only thing that's going to put an end to things like terrorism is to have the whole world be open and unfettered, and for something like equality to be achieved. Given that the first world has been deliberately twisting the third in order to keep them down and maintain the status quo (take a look at just what the US has done to middle and south america throughout history for some excellent examples - most of them engaged in at the point of a sword, or the end of a gun) I'd say that outsourcing is just the free market attempting, in its clumsy way, to establish equality.

I am not a patriot. I believe in the rights of all humans, whether they live in the USA or not. Does that make me a traitor? I suppose from a certain narrow-minded point of view, it does. But I believe that all of us humans are on this rock together, that all of our actions necessarily affect everyone else standing here in the mud, and that we are going to have to go into the future together if we want to get there.