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You are Mr. X. You have worked in the XYZ industry for 20 years now. One fine day you get an text message on your cell saying "You're fired".
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but I just can't agree that outsourcing is too good
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Sure, that people are getting fired because their job is moving, isn't "good." Dean's message was: What are you going to do about it? Talk about it for ever, or invent the next best thing. In our capitalistic society, businesses are going to outsource ... on the one hand it tends to lower costs to the consumer (something most people like), and, true, on the other hand it has a personal effect, and many people get fired. No one is saying that those people getting fired is A Good Thing -- but you've got to understand the issue is not so simple as that!
What I got out of Dean's message is this. Outsourcing is happening, it always has in one disguise or another, and there's nothing you can do to stop it. You can either be the philosopher who ponders over a glass being half-empty or half-full ... or you can think like an engineer and find a solution to the problem. Invent something. Lacking that, go out and make yourself "marketable." But just because you fell of the horse, don't give up. Just because outsourcing is causing a problem for engineers now, if we keep our children from becoming engineers the problem will just get worse, not better.
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care to argue against an expert?
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Almost always. (As an aside, depending on an "expert" is an example of what's called a fallacy; "experts" seldom agree and are quite frequently wrong
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