Millions of jobs lost overseas- Is this a serious problem for the U.S.?

[Dis]

It seems many tech jobs are going to Russia and India, including tech support. All they have to know how to do is speak english.

Is this a serious problem? Can we create more jobs to fill them? We created many jobs in the 90's that didn't exist before, can we do it again?

Because I see this as a serious problem. True, not all jobs can be shipped overseas. Many jobs require "hands" on work. But even white collar jobs such as accounting is being shipped overseas.

This got me concerned. Because if we reach a point where we have millions of people that can't find work, and need work to eat and live in their homes, we will have a problem. Yes we already have millions of people out of work, but they aren't starving to death...yet

Is it time to go to socialism? These fat cat business owners are getting rich sending american jobs overseas. They are making millions. Is it time they support the people they put out of work?

[SlowwHand]

Dissident, you jackass. Where have you been, a ****ing cave?
Hell yes, it is, and has been, a serious problem.

[Traianvs]

fault of the big multinationals... they'll do anything to get people who work for less money

[Dis]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Dissident, you jackass. Where have you been, a ****ing cave?
Hell yes, it is, and has been, a serious problem.

this hasen't been a problem until recently. We had record low unemployment rates in the 90's. We created millions of new jobs in the 90's.

All hail Bill Clinton!!

Okay he had little to do with it. Technology explosion is what fueled the 90's boom.

[Dis]

Hell even McDonald's is automating their burger making. Soon you won't even be able to fall back on jobs like McDonald's.

Not that it is a realist job to work at. I'd rather die than work there. No offense Albert Speer

[Geronimo]

Is there any country in the world that doesn't lose significant numbers of jobs to people overseas?

[Dis]

India of course, or China

[Verto]

Yes. The countries to which all these people are moving.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Dissident


this hasen't been a problem until recently. We had record low unemployment rates in the 90's. We created millions of new jobs in the 90's.

All hail Bill Clinton!!

Okay he had little to do with it. Technology explosion is what fueled the 90's boom.

I suspect speculation based on inflated fraudulent corporate earnings statements was also a huge factor in the boom.

[ajbera]

I've even heard that there's a program for some companies to bring workers from other countries here to the US to work, but can still pay them the pittance they would receive back in their home country. So they've made the labor local, but retained the Third-world costs. F*ckers.

[yavoon]

not as big a problem as it would first seem. more a problem for smaller countries than the US. since its pointless to take all our jobs away as then u couldn't sell things to us.

imagine if america stopped consuming? the economic world would implode.

[Imran Siddiqui]

No, it isn't a serious problem. It is a sign of more efficient jobs (your tech jobs in the 90s) predominating in the US. There will, of course, be growing pains through the process, but the US will get more efficient.

Skilled jobs go to where the productivity is. As long as the US is productive, we'll always have work.

I guess the 'serious problem' is that Indian workers are getting more and more productive and will be an economic superpower in the next 50 years.

[DRoseDARs]

Health club equipment doesn't clean itself...my job is secure. Once I get my degree in Architecture...well, we'll see...

The only way to combat shipping USAmerican jobs overseas is either to give much stronger incentives to keep them here like tax breaks and grants or threaten stronger penalties for not complying to certain standards in the workplace. Sweatshops, child-labor, and slavery won't disappear overnight in places like India so the incentive is to stay in the US were the good conditions are already in place.

Won't happen anytime soon because politicians enjoy being g*ngb*ng*d by large corporate donors too much.

[:) Smiley]

It is a very serious and unprecedented problem.

It is becoming less and less possible to make a good living in America using one's skills or one's labor. The only way to make a good living in the USA now is with existing money; the so-called "investor class".

This destroys the way the USA works because now people have no incentive to immigrate to the country.

The problem will partially correct itself though, as wages in the USA for a given quantity of work equalize with that elsewhere in the world. Then jobs stop leaving. But that does not solve the inequality problem.

[yavoon]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
No, it isn't a serious problem. It is a sign of more efficient jobs (your tech jobs in the 90s) predominating in the US. There will, of course, be growing pains through the process, but the US will get more efficient.

Skilled jobs go to where the productivity is. As long as the US is productive, we'll always have work.

I guess the 'serious problem' is that Indian workers are getting more and more productive and will be an economic superpower in the next 50 years.

yes but as long as u dont pay the Indians anything they have to sell their goods to americans. and if u actually pay them then they wont have that ridiculous competitive advantage.