outsourcing

[abortretryfail]

I saw a great movie called Outsourced (anyone seen it?) last week and though it was primarily a comedy and if it had a message it was about cultural understanding and communication not about outsourcing, but the movie has made me think about outsourcing a lot. In general, I am a libertarian and I don't believe that borders should stop the free flow of money. On the other hand - I don' t feel that way about agriculture at all, and I think there are limits to our human biology that the market cannot accomodate for. What are your thoughts/feelings on the matter?

[minks]

abortretryfail;710278 wrote: I saw a great movie called Outsourced (anyone seen it?) last week and though it was primarily a comedy and if it had a message it was about cultural understanding and communication not about outsourcing, but the movie has made me think about outsourcing a lot. In general, I am a libertarian and I don't believe that borders should stop the free flow of money. On the other hand - I don' t feel that way about agriculture at all, and I think there are limits to our human biology that the market cannot accomodate for. What are your thoughts/feelings on the matter?


where ya from again Abort USA or UK??

I agree with you there but they do and probably always will until the government stops playing it's little embargo and restrictions games.

If you are from the USA you understand NAFTA well that is the biggest scam on the planet... the USA will never ever allow the free flow of anything money or product because the government seems to think they can control everybody with NAFTA and to a degree they do.

Here is a wee example for you...

I can send dangerous goods quite easily across the border as long as I manufactured them here. I send explosive material weekly.

I can not send a cotton shir made from ******** across the border period. My because ******** is on the "restricted textile mfg country"

Maybe I am off topic with your ideals here mate I apologize.

I have to scribble out paperwork like you would not believe to transfer goods to my USA office I have to advise the governments that I am transerfing goods and not selling because if I do not do this they will double hit me with duty/taxes. Both on my sale, (in the USA) and my shipment.

Standard manatory forms are set up so that if you fill them out correctly you are taxed. There is no box to check to tell the feds this is a transfer of goods... they appear to be very sneaky. This is underhanded if you ask me.

Agriculture moving freely across borders I dunno again it's like a game I remember our mad cow issue here and how the USA shut down our cattle industry for a short spell, I think like you we ought to keep our resources to ourselves. Teach those who have not, how to have, how to ranch and farm and grow and produce.

[abortretryfail]

I'm from the USA. Traditionally I've looked the other way on my libertarian beliefs in free markets and unlimited outsourcing when it comes to food. I work in nutrition and am painfully in touch with how important it is to eat food that is grown locally. But, it that brings up a point I've discussed with my Japanese friends living in the US... there are some staples of Japanese cuisine that just aren't produced/grown locally (or even nationally). What's the line between nature and culture? Do we give the cultural staple foods and adapt to locally fed diets, losing that perhaps treasured aspect of culture? Do we force assimilation? Or compromise, and buy everything locally, but order abroad for the natto? Or try to change local flora and fauna to meet the cultural standards one is used to (danger, danger!)? I read in the Hollywood Reporter that they are making a TV show out of Outsourced - I hope they have each episode unravel an issue like this, with comedy... but I guess that's too much to ask for a basic network show.