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csziggy

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12. You're right - we need to get back to making stuff ourselves

Reply to Speck Tater (Reply #5)

Thu Jan 17, 2013, 12:18 PM

Jan 2013

Either individually or the entire country!

Or better yet, require that imported items be made by labor that is paid fair wages and benefits. The WORLD needs to require that. But as long as the planet is being managed by corporations, wages will be as low as they can force them and benefits only a dream for most workers.

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U.S. programmer outsources own job to China, surfs cat videos [View all] csziggy Jan 2013 OP

It's telling that the best "American" programmer is Chinese. Speck Tater Jan 2013 #1

He paid an entire team of Chinese programmers csziggy Jan 2013 #2

Isn't this just a more concrete, small scale example of how our economy actually works? NoOneMan Jan 2013 #4

All he did was cut out the middle man. Speck Tater Jan 2013 #5

You're right - we need to get back to making stuff ourselves csziggy Jan 2013 #12

No, he's a whole bunch of Chinese jeff47 Jan 2013 #10

That. Is. Amazing. Comrade_McKenzie Jan 2013 #3

I am literally ROFLMAO...and SMDH wonder.. VanillaRhapsody Jan 2013 #6

too bad I can't outsource my job like that.... n/t Victor_c3 Jan 2013 #7

Bob failed at one thing, and this is why he was fired. Glassunion Jan 2013 #8

You are assuming that management would reward the person who came up with the idea Fumesucker Jan 2013 #9

What he "should" have done is to become an independent contractor csziggy Jan 2013 #11