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byScrewMaster ( 602015 ) * writes:
Of course it's not "ethical", but that's not the point. It's legal, and that's all that matters.
And this "Randy Cohen" individual is an ass, or a shill, and I hope he gets outsourced by his employer at the earliest opportunity.
byRonin Developer ( 67677 ) writes:
Couldn't agree with you more. While it is legal to offshore the work, with a 9-10% unemployment rate in this country, it's not ethical or moral. Sadly, when you deal with stockholders and what is right for them, it's about the almighty dollar (or whatever your currency is) and their returns. Nobody ever said capitalism is necessarily or moral. But, once upon a time, people trusted the companies they worked for - companies very often took great care of their employees - now, we have to look out for oursel
bycetialphav ( 246516 ) writes:
While it is legal to offshore the work, with a 9-10% unemployment rate in this country, it's not ethical or moral.
What if the country that gets the jobs has a 25% unemployment rate? What if the country has vast amounts of starvation and extreme poverty? What makes it ethical to say that the lives in this country are more important than the lives in other countries?
People talk like outsourcing jobs is equivalent to stealing. That is not so. No one owns a job; no one deserves a job. My country has no more right to a job than any other country. We all have to compete. What could possibly be unethical about fair competition?
But, once upon a time, people trusted the companies they worked for - companies very often took great care of their employees - now, we have to look out for ourselves.
What time was that exactly? Was that at the time when companies used child labor? Was that at the time when no one worried about worker safety and many jobs had appalling mortality rates? You have a fantasy view of the past. You have always had to look out and fight for yourselves. You have always had to compete. Some groups (e.g. auto workers in Detroit) were able to gain some insulation from market forces in the past, but that couldn't last. The market will always catch up to you.
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byh4rr4r ( 612664 ) writes:
Fair competition would be fine, but competing against child labor or with people happy to poison their own water and air is not far competition.
bynbauman ( 624611 ) writes:
But, once upon a time, people trusted the companies they worked for - companies very often took great care of their employees - now, we have to look out for ourselves.
What time was that exactly? Was that at the time when companies used child labor? Was that at the time when no one worried about worker safety and many jobs had appalling mortality rates? You have a fantasy view of the past.
That was the policy of Eastman Kodak, IBM, and most other major U.S. corporations. It was also the policy of a lot of smaller companies, like the old German printing companies. That was the policies of the best companies in this country, for most of the last century.
It was a social contract between employers and workers -- an ethical obligation that Randy Cohen never heard of -- that went back thousands of years. In most wealthy developed countries, it's the law.
Unfortunately, most of those American compani
byMisterSquid ( 231834 ) writes:
It was a social contract between employers and workers -- an ethical obligation that Randy Cohen never heard of -- that went back thousands of years
How long do you labor specialization has been such that the entities we call "employer" and "workers" exist? Hint: it's not thousands of years.
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