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Originally Posted by Matej
If your job can be done by any person in any third world country; and for less; then it is most likely your own fault that you never strived to better yourself and improve your job outlook.
Outsourcing just means the country is advanced and has a strong service economy.
And loss of jobs could be prevented if post-high school education did not cost a decade of an average middle class person's salary, and was tax/state/government funded, at least partially. America needs more experts and specialists, and less generic laborers.
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In this argument, you propose that america's main export would be knowledge instead of products. This assumes many things, one being that the attainment of knowledge and expertise is a societal virtue. Second that this society would always have a market for it's products.
As blue collar jobs have disappeared, this has been found to not be true. Factory employee's are not retrained with a high degree of success into a white collar positions. Also economies can not survive just on service. They must have a product to make. Something to export. The biggest change from 1998-2008 was the conversion from manufacturing to jobs like banking and insurance. They do not create any value though which is something an economy must do.
As to the price of education, with drop out rates at 40+%. What good is a free college education with these kids can't graduate highschool? Lets face it. Not everyone aspires to be a rocket scientist.