Comments on: You Can’t Outsource Responsibility http://www.thetalentshow.org/2007/08/08/you-cant-outsource-responsibility/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:04:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: anon http://www.thetalentshow.org/2007/08/08/you-cant-outsource-responsibility/comment-page-1/#comment-13948 anon Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:21:29 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/2007/08/08/you-cant-outsource-responsibility/#comment-13948 "You get what you pay for." No, you don't. You get what you can be persuaded to pay for with the wages you can be persuaded to accept. And that applies collectively. e.g. Health insurance-- what used to be called a protection racket. “You get what you pay for.”
No, you don’t. You get what you can be persuaded to pay for with the wages you can be persuaded to accept. And that applies collectively. e.g. Health insurance– what used to be called a protection racket.

]]> By: Doobie http://www.thetalentshow.org/2007/08/08/you-cant-outsource-responsibility/comment-page-1/#comment-13946 Doobie Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:07:52 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/2007/08/08/you-cant-outsource-responsibility/#comment-13946 When the governmental agencies responsible for enforcing product safety regulations are gutted—or at the very least, encouraged to play footsie with the same industries they are supposed to regulate—this is what happens. When the governmental agencies responsible for enforcing product safety regulations are gutted—or at the very least, encouraged to play footsie with the same industries they are supposed to regulate—this is what happens.

]]> By: Becky http://www.thetalentshow.org/2007/08/08/you-cant-outsource-responsibility/comment-page-1/#comment-13940 Becky Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:04:19 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/2007/08/08/you-cant-outsource-responsibility/#comment-13940 If you don't like the quality of products from China,thank Walmart. They have forced American companies to outsource their products to China and third world countries. You get what you pay for. That's why I never shop at Walmart. Profit trumps quality and human rights everytime. So why do we have such a problem with Cuba? If you don’t like the quality of products from China,thank Walmart. They have forced American companies to outsource their products to China and third world countries. You get what you pay for. That’s why I never shop at Walmart. Profit trumps quality and human rights everytime. So why do we have such a problem with Cuba?

]]> By: dAnimal http://www.thetalentshow.org/2007/08/08/you-cant-outsource-responsibility/comment-page-1/#comment-13937 dAnimal Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:13:15 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/2007/08/08/you-cant-outsource-responsibility/#comment-13937 Ditto what Dave said. As a kid, I was a witness to the very beginning of the Tiananmen Square protests, and it horrifies me to think that my water bottle at work might have been produced by prison labor and made by one of those dissenters. But instead of addressing the horrible way China treats many of their citizens, we only care about them when it negatively affects business, e.g. their rampant DVD piracy. Ditto what Dave said. As a kid, I was a witness to the very beginning of the Tiananmen Square protests, and it horrifies me to think that my water bottle at work might have been produced by prison labor and made by one of those dissenters. But instead of addressing the horrible way China treats many of their citizens, we only care about them when it negatively affects business, e.g. their rampant DVD piracy.

]]> By: Dave http://www.thetalentshow.org/2007/08/08/you-cant-outsource-responsibility/comment-page-1/#comment-13936 Dave Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:45:14 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/2007/08/08/you-cant-outsource-responsibility/#comment-13936 On the one side, you are correct - the US has been either lax in regulatory oversight, or increasing imports such as to overwhelm what oversight we have in place. What concerns me more is the dropping off from the national discussion the status of our trading with China. Didn't we used to discuss China's status as 'Most Favored Nation' at some point? Weren't people concerned about China's human rights record in the hoary past? Why do we not even talk about this anymore? On the one side, you are correct – the US has been either lax in regulatory oversight, or increasing imports such as to overwhelm what oversight we have in place.

What concerns me more is the dropping off from the national discussion the status of our trading with China. Didn’t we used to discuss China’s status as ‘Most Favored Nation’ at some point? Weren’t people concerned about China’s human rights record in the hoary past? Why do we not even talk about this anymore?

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