Well a company's only loyalty lies with maximizing profit for their stockholders. Reducing personnel costs is one way to do that. American workers must compete for jobs/wages with the rest of the world. Is that not economic freedom? The only problem is that the global economy is destroying the social structure (the middle class) that made America great. Which leads to the question: can America unplug from the global economy, and if so, is it even desirable to do so?
Or, the IT workers need to transition to jobs that require customer interaction, as a foreign employee is unable to do that.
Good post but you lost me with one bit. How is the global economy destroying the social structure? I see that as a faith issue which tends to be inversely proportional to wealth.
Exactly-- make Americans compete with Third World labor and we'll live in a Third World country, not just economically but politically.
“Well a company’s only loyalty lies with maximizing profit for their stockholders.”
At first glance that seems like an argument for outside restraint by citizens with pitchforks, tar and feathers, or by labor or government.
I refer you to this thread, “The Zombie Programmers Awaken ... and they’re pretty tetchy [SunTrust]”:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3351520/posts
Quite a few notable comments there.
“Well a company’s only loyalty lies with maximizing profit for their stockholders. Reducing personnel costs is one way to do that. American workers must compete for jobs/wages with the rest of the world.”
I agree with you completely. But American workers have a hard time competing when foreign workers can be imported here and hired because they can be paid less, don’t have to be under Obamacare regs, etc. That’s not competition on a level playing field.