[a fool in paradise]

Frankly because the factory was sent elsewhere.

Desk jobs sitting at a computer have also been sent abroad (with the finished results smuggled into the country with no import duty paid). Whether it is graphic design (laying out ad circulars for the weekly grocery store ads, simple legal document preparation, or quality assurance testing of software and development of programming code and webpages).

Bill Gates and his ilk sold us out, yet they now proclaim that WE don't pay enough in taxes. Funny that.

[dfwgator]

I don’t know with the advent of the Internet, how you could have stopped anything that produced a product that is stored in a digital format, from being outsourced, without employing extremely draconian methods.

[OneWingedShark]

Desk jobs sitting at a computer have also been sent abroad (with the finished results smuggled into the country with no import duty paid). Whether it is graphic design (laying out ad circulars for the weekly grocery store ads, simple legal document preparation, or quality assurance testing of software and development of programming code and webpages).

I'm thinking that's pretty true: I'm a programmer and hideously underemployed (maybe 18 hrs/mo sub-subcontracting).

[autumnraine]

Heck, even customer service jobs are gone to India or somewhere.