The reality is that it is "your job" only if you own the company, are somehow indispensable or are returning superior value. If you can be fired from a job because you don't deliver enough value, it is not really your job.. no matter what you say.
You will not be "fired from your job" only if you are delivering more ROI (return on investment) than somebody else can. The cost of labor is not the only factor. I would rather pay twice the salary to somebody who is three times as productive!
So when companies outsource, they are getting more for their money in terms of ROI, even if the productivity of the offshore resources are lower than US resources, because of the significant cost differential in cost of labor.
The only way the higher cost American and other Western labor can compete with the lower cost offshore labor is by returning back more value to the companies that hire them. This means being more productive, innovative, higher quality, better service, etc. Just doing the same amount of work and returning the same amount of value as the offshore labor, and expecting to get paid five times as much is not realistic.
The other way for the higher cost western labor to compete with the lower cost offshore labor is for the Western governments to put very high import tariffs for products imported from other countries. But then our citizens would not be able to buy so much low cost 'Made in Asia' stuff from the big box retail stores!
It is strange, the same people who complain about jobs being outsourced, are the ones that buy lots of imported stuff! If you do not want jobs to be outsourced, then buy 'Made in America' even if you have to pay three times as much! If not, you are a contributory factor to jobs being outsourced!
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