Why does America want call centers, low-paying manufacturing jobs and generally the shit work you can send overseas?
It's called COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE, for fuck's sake. If you have a populace that's essentially rich enough to be able to school it's young, then don't attract shit jobs for them. Use the populace for what it's trained to do - namely, how to instruct the poor nations on HOW to do the shit jobs that provide the parts/tools/inputs necessary to allow the wealthier nations to thrive. That's comparative advantage. Teach them how to set up the factories and run them, and consult with them at exhorbitant rates on the newest technological developments you've created that will save them time and money (you know, good old R&D...something America was once famous for and the best in the world at. Ingenuity. Yeah, it's a foreign word now I guess).
Doesn't anyone ascribe to the belief that perhaps, it might be a good idea to not be putting widgets into holes in a factory in America? That those jobs are for people who don't have the opportunity to attend a public school and earn an education and go to college and be far more productive for their country? No, let's keep the shit jobs in America and dumb down the populace and give them nothing to strive for so we drive down our GDP, become a haven for low-paying manufacturing jobs and foreign direct investment, and drive immigration of under-employable people whilst simulataneously creating an efflux brain drain of smart Americans who seek their fortunes elsewhere in countries that truly do value educated people. Great plan.
I like strategic outsourcing. It makes sense. It always has. The problem is we let politics and agendas drive the process, and we let stupid uneducated people vote on it. The great unwashed slack-jawed mouth-breathing masses get what they deserve; a president and congress who give them exactly what they want -- shit jobs, for shit money to keep them feeling safe and secure in their little boxes with no risk. But don't you dare complain when you can't afford your boat and house you dumbfuck...you brought it all upon yourself. Get a credit card, I guess.