Outsourcing.
2/25/11
The other day I was thinking of jobs and how they are displaced. Since I am into music I thought of that first. In the old days there was more musicians employed for there was no recording systems. The pit orchestras in theatre I was thinking of. It was in the 80’s when there was Muszak and that kind of music required musicians to take a popular song many times and play it easy listening. Not only was a musician needed to play it but another to arrange it. There was arranger of this music that would take the song of the day or older one and make their own. There were songs that were easy listening enough and needed little arrangement. It died out, with a few years, but at one time there were four stations with this music. At the end I remember there was very great Christmas arrangement. John Lennon use to listen to easy listening as he did his chores around the house and mention that the only Beatles songs they played were very popular ones, there were so many good ones ignored.
It wasn’t too much later that cds came into music and they were three times more expensive than records and sat in small bind besides mostly records. I thought it is ridiculous the price of the cds because most people that buy them are teenagers and they don’t have that kind of money. I was a teenager myself at the time. Some smart ass teenager at the time told me, “most people make twenty dollars an hour.” The computers became very sophisticated and the teenagers and others decided why they should pay anything at all? Now, musicians have to find another way to make money, has gotten harder, going on concert tours. It is only the extremely popular and very insipid that makes the riches.
One hears it all the time the out sourcing to foreign countries jobs that could be American. More technological systems that humans are not needed and I removed for machines that do their jobs. Like recently, the toll takers were removed for machines. They have to find another job in a country with little jobs. The televisions, computers, clothing are made overseas for they make more money in the labour more people out of work. In the 80’s there was still clothing many times made in the states, as the years gets on there is nothing. They think these unemployed people will find something out there. There is no concern for the people but only how much money can be made! They want to make the country one of nonproducers, only the wealthy manipulating the system to make the largest sum of cash.
Education surely is a source to a better life, but that doesn’t necessarily fix the problem that many times the job can’t be found, not only in the humanities which is harder hit, but in business, etc. The business goes bad, like all those that flounder under and the person is unemployed for years, if he or she has bad luck. What one thinks will be prosperous isn’t, and what one thinks wont is prosperous, many times this happens, be yourself!!!
