Offshoring
Offshoring
Customer: "I would like to buy your product"
Owner: "That will be 10 dollars."
Customer: "Sounds Good."
Owner: "Will you build me this product?"
Employee: "Sure, I just need to be paid enough to feed and house my family, and a little to save for the future."
Owner: "Sounds good."
Employee delivers product to owner, owner delivers to customer and collects 10 dollars.
Owner: "Here is your dollar."
Employee: "Thank you."
Owner thinks, "I need more money, what can I do? I can't raise my prices or my customer will go elsewhere. I know, I'll offshore my labour."
Owner offshores labour.
Customer: "I would like to buy your product"
Owner: "That will be 10 dollars."
Customer: "Sounds Good."
Owner: "Will you build me this product?"
Foreign based Employee: "Sure, I just need to be paid enough to feed and house my family, and a little to save for the future."
Owner: "Sounds good."
Foreign based Employee delivers product to owner, owner delivers to customer and collects 10 dollars.
Owner: "Here is your dime."
Foreign based Employee: "Thank you."
Former Employee: "What about me? I have built products for you for years and I have nothing now."
Former Employer: "Find some bootstraps you fucking lazy pile of shit!"