Outsourcing - the reasons for outsourcing and how outsourcing endangers our own jobs as a result of our own denial to do such jobs in our own country

One of the current presidential candidates defined outsourcing as "when we lose jobs to other countries". That of course is a totally wrong view of reality. We never lose jobs as a result of outsourcing. Jobs are outsourced because we refused to do that kind of jobs for the competitive salary available for those jobs! Outsourcing is done by the industry as a result of local employees asking too much salary or as a result of local employees refusing to do dirty jobs, dangerous work or boring work.

It is the local labor force that is the cause for outsourcing. outsourcing is done for purely economic reasons. For reasons of finding other people doing the very same job cheaper. If all local workforce is willing to do all work that occurs in life, including boring jobs, dirty or dangerous jobs. When all citizens of a country is willing to do all work at a price affordable by the global market.

Hence to preserve local job or employment opportunities as much as possible, we all have to understand that there are global limits about how expensive products can be to remain affordable. As a result we have to be willing and ready to:

• do all the dirty, dangerous and boring mass production work as part of our all duty toward entire planet and our entire nation
• do be willing to work at prices affordable to all
• be willing to adapt our qualifications to the need of industry and needs created by society
• accept that all are of equal value and no one on earth is worth less to do those jobs we consider boring or dangerous
• if we as a nation want a particular industry - then we should perform all tasks, all work independent of wages, danger or pollution involved ourselves in our own country
• whatever pollution or waste an industry creates also will need to be completely recycled in the country that waste or pollution was produced

No industry moves into a strange, unknown and sometimes risky foreign, exotic country if a truly reasonable solution remains available in its own home-country. It is the greed - greed from employees for ever increasing salaries as well as the greed of investors for ever increasing profits that creates the imbalance between payment potential and payment requests within its home-plant that ultimately creates the need of the management to search for cheaper locations to outsource some or all work into a cheaper and still affordable country.

The options created by ever increasing wage demands by local work force results in:

We pay as demanded by employees or labor union

but

Part of the jobs have to be exported / outsourced into cheaper production countries to create the profitability needed to pay for increasing local wages

As an industrial nation we have a duty toward the entire remainder of the planet. We have to keep the dirty work within our own boundaries, we have to dispose and recycle all trash, all waste, all pollution in our own country where it was originally produced. If we enjoy the high paying, challenging jobs of an industry, then we also have to accept to complete all unqualified, dirty, boring or dangerous jobs as well. The shadow side of an industry is part of the sunny side of each industry.

That only can be achieved if 100% of all native workforce spends some time, some years in all those unpleasant and low paying positions along mass production production lines, assembly lines, dirty chemical jobs, etc. If heavily underpaid labor in Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, India, Haiti, China or any other low cost country can do such jobs, then we too may have to learn to develop that deepest humbleness to do whatever is needed - to do whatever needs to be done.

The proven readiness to do all jobs ourselves prevents the need for "illegal" employees that ONLY are finding jobs because most of us are "too good"n to do such jobs at those wages paid for such jobs done. The proven readiness to do absolutely all work at whatever salary is offered by a particular industry, when needed and how needed will assure that almost all currently outsourced jobs can or could be done in our own country.

Such is valid for all those "first world countries" like the many central European countries and USA that currently outsource to India, China, South East Asia and many other countries.

No politician can change our attitude. The only to have the power to change that current situation of outsourcing resulting of loss of jobs is within each and all of us. We have to change our attitude, we have to learn to work again for real money to preserve the sunny side of life. If and as long as we reject the shadow side of industries, we also shall lose the sunny side of that very industry !!!

It is our own true love for all mankind, for all planet that only can create the readiness within to work at lower wages when lower wages only are affordable by potential customers. We all are customers - we all have to lower our demands and increase our giving to create a balance between love given and love received. That law is valid for spiritual love as much as for industrial exchange or two way flow of goods, services or finances.

Love and bliss

hans