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your pro actually has a number huge downsides:
1.: outsourcing creates less jobs in a country than it eliminates, since the basic functions usually require more workforce. in most factories for example you will find considerable more workers than engineers or even managemers.
2.: an economy of outsourcing is reliant of the relative weakness of the other countries economy. the recent (or to be more precise: ongoing) economic crisis proves that things in one economy can have global effects, making any weak economy a threat to all other economies. even if one argues that this is not the case: the outcourcing country suddenly has finantial interrest in the oher countrys economic weakness.
3.: Imagine a country in which all companies outsource every low paining job. two scenarios are possible from this position: either the companies maintain the number of employees and produced goods, which means wide spread unemployment throughout the country resulting in less profit for the companies since no one can afford their products anymore. Or the companies expand their number of employees and produced goods in a way that creates enough jobs to compensate for the unemployment, causing an enormous surplus of goods since you don't buy more than a certain amount of most products, no mater how much you make. that surplus fills the markets causing massive price drops thus resulting in less profit for the companies. either way the economy suffers.
4.: the entire premise of outsourcing is inherently unfair towards third world countries, even to a point where one could easily call it racist. (i want to point out that i dont think its racist, its greedy and inconsiderate, not racist but one could make that point)
i my oppinion outsourcing is bad. not only does it take jobs away from the country the company is from, it also makes the contry in wich the jobs are created dependant on theyr labor being cheap.
Furthermore is it a shame that people in the third world get paid considerably less- and often enough too little- for the same work in the same company as someone in a more fortunate country would.
i know those views don't actually belong here and i hope not to insult anybody with them but i feel that this is an injustice and as such needs to be brought to mind.
@JuggaloBert
I understand your concern Juggalo. The sad thing is that big companies are mostly fueled by greed (or profit if you want). Now we have the great thing called globalization and since the average salary in the US (and "western countries") is way higher than in the rest of the world it is illogical to keep any business creating non-perishables in the US.