Week 8: Global Inequality "Offshoring"

In recent years American companies have been outsourcing jobs to low wage countries.  Now a call center employee can easily work from India, China or the Philippines.  Often when you place a service call to a telephone service provider your call can get routed to another country.  Foreign competition is overwhelming especially with the advancement of technology and the attempt to cut out operation cost.  It seems that America is willing to sell to the lowest bidder at the price of its own citizen’s livelihood. As a result of the advancement of technology we not only have the virtual automated system where you can hardly get a live representative; we now have outsourcing of jobs that would potentially employ thousands of Americans and help boost the economy.  There have been recent signs that this trend is slowing down and that some companies are attempting to keep jobs here however this is still an issue on the table.  Though there’s no evidence that this practice is the cause of economic downfall; neither is there evidence that it's not. Some believe that this practice helps boost the economy because products that are too expensive to make in the U.S. can be made in other countries made possible by outsourcing.  I beg to differ and believe that though this is not the primary reason for present economic hardship it’s represents a big portion.