Saturday 28 July 2012
Chinese maker of U.S. Olympic uniforms baffled by backlash
Read the Los Angeles Times article!
Bénédicte ROCHE writes:
What are the consequences of outsourcing?
It’s a well-known fact it makes people lose
their jobs in the countries the enterprises have left behind. Offshoring only
benefits the shareholders... It should also be advantageous for the customers,
giving them cheaper goods, but it is not; the cost of goods and services does
not go down.
Offshoring of course gives Asian countries the
chance to develop and improve people’s lives, which can’t be considered as a
bad thing; everybody has the right to work, surely? Nonetheless, for a company to
aim at bigger profits when it does not need the extra money is unhealthy for
the economy at large…
Also, outsourcing shouldn’t be used as a means
to make profits when labor is underpaid in poor countries and working conditions
squalid.
I think in this particular case, it undermines
the USA’s credibility; are they not able to make their own uniforms? Where is
their national pride?!
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