The OP is damn right.
Think of all these companies which think they are are being so smart, taking away jobs from good Americans and giving them to them commies. Serves them right when they get screwed.
In my last company, good old American company started to screw over it’s US workers by doing manufacturing over there. They were getting squeezed from the bottom by foreign competition.
So, they found a partner Chinese company, started having products built there. Transferred some more technology, was able to produce products which they had previously not been competitive, and took market share away from the competitors.
Build up the China operations, including buying out the local partner, and owned the building and got the engineers. They increased world sales by $20 million a year, hiring more higher priced sales and marketing people.
So this just shows the the OP is right. Outsourcing is stupid.
Oh. Wait. Maybe it doesn’t show that.
Sorry. Wrong example, I just know the ones that work out. But I’m sure that because one company got screwed, everyone does.
Or not. Doing business in China reminds me of a book title “Swimming with the sharks without being eaten alive.” Not the book, which is about business in general, but the idea which is if you go swimming there, you’ve got to know the the fuck you are doing.
Hell, even the Taiwanese get screwed over there at times, you know it’s going to get rough, so you hire someone good to guide you.