A Good Reason to Boycott Disney

mcat2
Wed, 27 Jan 2016 03:32:36 +0000

Now, it is being used to bring tech equivalent of fruit pickers and then move both the fruit production and picking abroad (Except actual fruit pickers do not directly displace US workers… )

In the name of “productivity”, and “globalization”, I guess.

When things got “really bad” at one of my previous work place, a colleague said that the only workable solution is to significantly reduce American’s cost of living to be close to that of the workers in the third world countries. But this is almost impossible.

Of course, at some management level, they do not need to lower their living standard while living here - they “manage” the projects that have been outsourced to those lower COL countries. When the whole corporate culture becomes like this, the non-managers (who are the lucky ones to still have the jobs here in the US) and the managers do not have their interests aligned with each other, because the higher managers will pressure the lower or mid-level managers to keep reducing the domestic workforce and shopping the jobs overseas. It takes a certain kind of “personality” to be a manager like this. In the end, very few technical people in such a company will stay at the engineering level due to the hostile environment. If these technical people have children, it is often the case that their children never want to be in this line of jobs after having seen that their parents are treated like this. So more and more of our engineering schools (especially at the grad school levels) recruit students from overseas. It is like a chain reaction.