[Outsourcing=Competition]

GEt real, most of the outsourcing is big companies shedding non-core activities to other specialist companies -- and most of those specialist companies are in America. A bank outsources it's tech work to IBM AMERICAN workers so it can have a good year with lots of tech work one year and a leaner year the next without hiring and firing workers. AND it gets highly qualified workers. The highly qualified lot can do high level work without crests and troughs so they can hone their skills. It's like GM outsources it's parts to be manufactured by outside companies.

[bvw]

A non-stabled high-performance team can beat every other model in the economy of the world.

I know that in my own life and work, and better I can point to the one industry which has revamped itself to use such teams almost exclusively -- Hollywood! The movies.

Goof and great films poured out of the wholly captured and owned stables of talent banks the Studios had up through the early 60's. Yet they paled in comparison to the market and quality of films out of the US once we went to a complete cobbler's model of throwing together independents and independent teams on high-turnaround projects. Amazing leaps in quality in all except script character and plot development, where by my view, the quality mix has been more-or-less constant.

BUT HEY! Don't be confusing the issue! That example is a side-issue -- the pertinant issue is wholesale looting of techonological capability from our shores and also ravenous and homosexual sex-lke (buggering) models of "trade", of imports without balanced tariffs.

[gg188]

It's like GM outsources it's parts to be manufactured by outside companies

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