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In reply to the discussion: 1 in 2 new graduates are jobless or underemployed [View all]AdHocSolver
(2,561 posts)...who lost their U.S. jobs when they were replaced by cheaper foreign graduates.
The foreign graduates are brought in to REPLACE U.S. workers. I previously worked for a manufacturing company that brought in Chinese engineers to train them to do the work in preparing them for opening a factory in China. It was apparent in interacting with the Chinese engineers that they were not the cream of the crop. The American engineers that I worked with were far superior in capability.
The fact is that the mega-corporations have outsourced the types of jobs that people without degrees in science and engineering could perform and collect a living wage. Many family supporting manufacturing jobs could be performed by people without college degrees.
The canard that Americans couldn't be trained on the job to do a large amount of technical work is belied by the fact that much of the assembly of high tech gear is performed in Asian sweatshops by non-college graduates with little training.
Family operated retail stores and other types of small businesses have been, to a large extent, driven into extinction by big box stores and internet shopping.