Reply #16: TIP!!! How to silence this argument FOREVER.

[jacquelope]

Remind them of this and they'll have nothing to respond to. I posted this on the Straight Dope forum, a bastion of pro-offshoring idiocy, and they frothed at the mouth for days over it... but they had no answer.

For America to benefit from offshoring the people of India, Mexico and other countries must remain desperately poor.

When their wages go up the benefits of offshoring diminish. The companies that offshored jobs to them, then choose to go elsewhere. This is happening in China and India now (they're moving jobs to Africa and Vietnam).

Companies that engage in offshoring consume their resources, pollute their skies and water, and depend on paying them rock bottom wages. When globalism brings everyone else's wages up (while driving ours down), there'll be nowhere left for the companies to go. By then, of course, we'll be totally broke.