>I think the anti-outsourcing posts in this forum stem primarily from two points of view (1) that outsourcing to increase profits at any cost to society at large, the environment, etc, is not acceptable (which I think most of us would agree with), and (2) from an emotional point of view - if you are the one who loses his job then whether that loss is due to a factory robot, another person in the same country, or to another person in another country will be of little consolation. In other words, its complicated ...

Hi Jos,
I undersood second emotional point. To be jobless is not funny thing.
Byt I am not agree with first one.
The outsoutcing not only increase profit, but its increase society porductivity.
It force people, who lose their jobs because of outsuorcing, to learn new technologies, to become more productive than in their previous job and to survive.
I start business, because of outsourcing. When I lost my job 12 ago I was in weightlessness. But learned English and majored in MA in economics. After 2 years I was on the board with new knowledge and 10 times more productive than in previous job.