Sidecar Flip said:
Jamie:
Instead, I limit my consumption as much as possible.
Agree. We, the so-called "consumers" have to be a bit more discerning. Down the road, what's the point of paying a lot less for out-sourced goods and services if we or our children end up jobless or, at least, with lousy jobs and paychecks, as a result of all that "global" out-sourcing mania ... and can't even
afford those low-cost marvels no more .
The other widespread fallacy is to believe that only "blue collar"-type jobs are earmarked for outsourcing, as if the real important, "white collar" or "value adding"
stuff, engineering, marketing, strategizing, pricing, communicating, etc. were OURS to keep. I have two issues with that:
1. White collars alone cannot drive local prosperity, let alone employment.
2. More importantly, at least IMO, the countries we merrily outsource to are NOT going to settle for unskilled jobs and starvation-avoidance salaries for long. They (Former Eastern European countries, India for sure, Thailand probably, once political unrest calms down, VietNam one of these days...)
are going to go for/claim the WHOLE labor chain act, INcluding that "white collar" or "value adding" portion.
Hey, what do I care? Am 57 and officially retired
. Jamie