Reply #33: NC, MI, and PA have lost the same number of jobs

[noamnety]

whether the specific individual you are speaking with on a phone call is the result of an outsourced job or not. The only reason I can think of to even ask the question is to go out of your way to be rude to them, to let them know that you, as an American, don't approve of their right to work at a job that was apparently advertised in their own country. We don't hold ourselves to this standard, though. My brother-in-law works for a German company, and nobody here has ever given him grief about that.

It's good to remember what you wrote applies to India as well as America: "Who's been hurt in this country by outsourcing? Black and white lower income people. They have despaired. Many turn to drugs. They are victims of bad schools, broken families and lack of opportunity." They, like much of the rest of the world, have in many cases lost their ability to use their own natural resources to support themselves because of western imperialism, colonialism, and industrialized lifestyles of people in the US. Remember the salt march.

I'd love to see the folks who are outraged by outsourcing be equally outraged over the economic hardships we've imposed on other countries. I doubt that will happen though. The same person who will make a point of being rude to a worker for no other reason than that worker applied for a job opening and was hired ... is likely to go to the store and buy produce from another country, without a care in the world that the multinational company growing that produce is destroying their farmlands and replacing them with a monoculture, displacing thousands of indigenous families. I'd love to know how many of those outraged folks own a diamond engagement ring. I'd like to know how many drink coca-cola or bottled water or eat bananas.

Ah, but that's different, because Americans are allowed to exploit others, it's just right and natural to do so. It doesn't require any self-examination or critical thought. But those other folks from other countries, they have a moral obligation to examine whether their acceptance of a job will affect a random American they'll never meet. Such is life in Privilegesville, USA.