Made in America

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by noceradave

One of the urgent reasons education needs to be involved with programs like First robotics is to raise the technology literacy of American students and help them thrive in technology careers in this globalized technology centric economy. Because of outsourcing, students face a real threat that they will graduate colleges and not find jobs . It is disappointing to see what percentage of components used on our robots are imported.

Should First create a new rule that technology used on robots needs to be "made in America"?

Lemme guess, you're one of those guys that thinks we should only buy American cars too?


But I'll humor you, tell me how STEM jobs (which are what we are trying to encourage students to go into) are impacted by the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs?

I'd be willing to entertain the argument that software jobs are at risk. But I'll also tell you (from first hand experience) that there are certain jobs that cannot be outsourced for a variety of reasons. Furthermore, recent articles I've seen have alluded to software jobs coming back from India for a variety of reasons.

So, in short, I firmly believe that outsourcing is a specter that people like to point to to instill fear in us and get us to buy American. If I can get the same job done drastically cheaper overseas good for me.