Top 10 Reasons Outsourcing is Bad For Business

[ashling]

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REASON #1: You may lose control of your intellectual property.
REASON #2: It may result in low quality, brand-damaging products.
REASON #3: You may be supporting slave labor and child labor.
REASON #4: You may be supporting massive environmental degradation.
REASON #5: You may not get access to local markets.
REASON #6: You may be empowering a group of thugs.
REASON #7: It makes you more vulnerable to energy spikes.
REASON #8: Your product might put your own children at risk.
REASON #9: You’re helping to destroy your own country.
REASON #10: Everyone is doing it. When everyone is following the same strategy, it can’t possibly create a competitive advantage for anybody.


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[Emelina]

1. But big business...

Has no morality except self-gain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MZCHjGkTPg

Corporations and politicians (most, not all) feel no guilt, no loyalty to the American worker, and absolutely no empathy. We are a far cry from the days of Henry Ford who knew a living wage would enable his workers to buy his products. We are evolving into an ultra-rich society and a mass of minimum wage slaves.

[Journeyman]

2. In which case, Reasons 1, 2, 5, 7 & 10 are all in line with your analysis. . .

and as business interests recognize these realities, they will (and already are starting to) respond.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. All Reasons are rendered irrelevant as long as the shareholders receive

their dividend and the stock price rises.

[ashling]

4. See post #2

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