In the movie, “Sleep Dealer”, the outsourcing of labor was one of the issues showed in the movie. The outsourcing issue has been debated in the nation, and it has been criticized during the last decade. In my opinion, the outsource of labor affects our society for the following reasons; works have been taking overseas, people displacement of jobs, and people are under pay for similar jobs.
People in America have been struggling to find open positions in many fields where they used to be a great source of jobs due to the outsourcing of labor. In the movie, the government did not want immigrants to stay in the United States, but they manipulated them for many different forms of hard labor, but only paid low salaries. This has been happening in the last few decades in many poor countries around the world, such as: India, Mexico, China, and Morocco. For instance, Dell computers outsource their customer service department to India, as well as many other companies.
Many Americans are being displaced of their jobs without a chance to get a new one, because of the outsourcing outcomes in business operations. Some companies sent their workload out of the country to reduce the expenses of its companies, as a result, this cause former workers to lose any hope of getting their job back. This can be told by the many IT specialist that are currently unemployed by the new boom of IT department specialist in India. Even though Indians are very respectful professionals, we have to prioritize our society members to be first in the list of potentials employees, because it is part of developing our society.
The outsourcing is not beneficial for the companies in the long run. Think about all our jobs being done in Mexico as it was done in the movie. What people living in the United States would do to get money? A capitalism economy needs its own people to spend money to survive; this means that the money needs to flow in order to increase value of the economy. Companies cannot just pretend to save tons of money without looking at the final outcome. They need people to have power of purchasing their products which is why they made it to be sold.
In my conclusion, outsourcing labor is not a good option for our society and companies as well. Americans have been traded by the company’s business of making profit out of the need of poor countries to save money. I will try to stop this by making those companies to pay higher taxes, because they are letting their people out of the job market.
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