>>When your job gets outsourced, sit and think what did you do to make it go away. Because it was your fault, nobody else's.
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>>I know, this belief that it's all in your hands is part of the American dream and part of the system of beliefs that goes with it (which then makes me think what's the purpose of charity - maybe to make these homeless people go through another day of thinking what have they done wrong?). Which probably was valid in some times. I just don't see the playfield being so level nowadays.
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>Companies/corporations have always seeked the cheapest way to do business, and that will never change. But so far the American workers, for the most part, have been good about adjusting their skills to meet the job market. Those that can't adjust must find something else. Kinda like evolution... if you will. :)

I wasn't disputing that, but the (IMO, silly) notion that one's always 100% responsible for their own success or failure. When Ford or GMC decide to close production lines and fire tens of thousands of people - it's not the fault of the company, it's these people who get fired, each one of them, who are to blame. They must have pressured the company into making wrong decisions over the years.

This mantra that it's never the system that's at fault, it's always you... well, if I was building a system, I'd be glad if my users believed in it. But somehow I wouldn't think they'd buy it. But they did.