Millions of American manufacturing jobs have been lost since the 1960’s. But American inginuity allowed many of those jobs to be replaced by high-tech jobs. The jobs jobs we are losing now are in Engineeering,
Computer Science, Research and jobs near me Development, and most other high-tech areas.
Over many decades, American workers, through unions and scarcity of skilled workers, have raised their standard of living. American companies couldn’t use cheap foreign labor because communicating and coordinating over great distance was costly and complicated. The Internet changed that.
Using cheap Internet bandwidth provided by American telecom companies, American companies are now able to communicate and coordinate with cheap foreign workers just as easily as if they lived next door. The Internet has leveled the playing field for all workers world-wide. An American worker now competes for a job against workers in Beijing China, Calcutta India and everywhere else in the world.
American companies have the choice of paying a reasonable
wage, or even the minimum wage of $6.00 per hour, to an
American worker, or paying 24 cents an hour for a worker
in China, or 34 cents an hour for a worker in India. The
choice is clear. Fire the American worker.
Some experts are saying that the job oursourcing trend is
not permanent. Just like the high-tech revolution of the
last decades, America will find a way to replace the lost
jobs. Unfortunately, wishful thinking does not put food on
the table. The job outsourcing can end only when the
American worker becomes cheaper than their foreign
competitors.
Since China and India each have a population of over one
billion (not to mention Indonesia and Africa), compared to
about 300 million for the United States, the wages of
American workers would have to drop until their standard
of living collapsed to that of the average Chinese or
Indian.
== Why the U.S. Government is Exporting Your Job ==
Over the past three years, 3 million American jobs have
been outsourced, primarily to China and India. A study by
UC Berkeley predicts that as many as 14 million more jobs
will be lost. Why doesn’t our government do something? Has
our government and the Bush administration been asleep on
the job? To the contrary, the government is using the
export of your job as a political tool.