Having only non-tradable, domestic service jobs is a typical
characteristic of a third world country (Roberts 2014).
Businesses argue that offshore outsourcing is good because
they say it gives opportunities to the working people in the
countries outsourced to. They tell us it gives foreign workers a
chance to rise up out of poverty and become equal in the global
economy. However; the foreign workers, in their outsourced
jobs, make only a fraction of U.S. minimum wage. American
businesses take advantage of this lack of U.S. minimum wage
and outsource their business processes for as cheap as they
can. With U.S. money coming in the governments of these
countries have no motivation to increase the incomes or the
standards of living of the working people. In fact, they are
encouraged to keep them low. If the foreign governments
increased the incomes of the workers, U.S. businesses would
send their business processes to be completed in a country
where the working people would make even less money. It is
almost as if U.S. businesses reward foreign governments for
exploiting their working people. In some cases, hatred of the
United States has occurred among the working people in the
countries outsourced to for this reason. They feel exploited by
the U.S. (Foreign Labor 2003).