Why Trump won and why I believe globalization is a failure. With disgruntled workers in the West castigating their politicians and employers for embracing Globalization, many have now begun the process known as 'On-shoring'. Recent political changes that resulted in Brexit and the election of Donald Trump in the US who powered his way by lambasting Hillary Clinton for supporting Globalization, is a proof that we are witnessing a transformation to another New World Order.
This is bad news for emerging countries like China, Mexico, India etc., who have been mostly depending on exports as a way to power their growth. For the past 25+ years or so, Western corporations have been selling Globalization to their public by telling them that all is hunky dory - that the manufacturing jobs lost to nations with cheaper labor will be replenished with jobs in the 'Service' industry. Guess what? That never happened. With the advent of high speed INTERNET, the West saw even more job losses and this time, the losses were in the service industry. America suddenly realized nobody was immune to this new reality unless something was done rather quick to change the trend. Millions of jobs from customer support, back offices, medical transcriptions to radiology that produces imaging results in health care industry were bolting out the door at the fastest pace imaginable. So what are average Americans left to do? Not much really. They could probably find a lower paying job at Walmart or flip burgers at McDonalds and Burger King to make ends meet. Around the time I first landed in America, these jobs were mostly taken up by teenagers, eager to make a few extra bucks to spend at the movies or to purchase a new pair of jeans. Now - more and more of these jobs are being grabbed by adults with spouses and kids who depend on them for support. To make matters worse, most of these low paying jobs do not cover sick time, maternity pay, health insurance and vacation. Health insurance? What insurance? Are you crazy? In reality what's happening now is that people like us who pay substantial amount in taxes are subsidizing the low paying jobs. In effect, we are making the Walmart’s and the McDonalds/Burger Kings of the world, more wealthier (Yeah you can add Mr. Buffet to that list) by paying for their employee's health care via Obamacare or by paying elevated health care expenses in the US. These are some of the factors that has resulted in shifting huge amount of wealth into the the hands of relatively few. In addition to what Trump is already doing, I think he needs to do even more to help Americans get their jobs back. All he needs to do is change the law in the US to dis-allow any American corporation to offshore any job that provides access to US resident’s personal information. Personal information would be anything that has a customer name, address, phone numbers, bank account information, social security number, health care status, tax information, payroll etc., - such information should be BANNED from accessing via the INTERNET by non-US based employees. What this means is that foreign employees (or third party contractors) of the US corporation cannot provide support to customers in the US via the INTERNET. I know some countries already do this - such as Switzerland. If such a law passes in the US Congress - you can say 'Ta Ta' to the Sid's (Sidharth), Chris' (Krishna), Sam's (Sameer), Dan's (Daneesh) etc., who fake their accents into making you believe they are not stealing American jobs. In my opinion, globalization is a complete failure for developed nations and it needs to stop. For more sentiment about these thoughts, please google for Davos meeting 2017. You can guarantee that I'll be sending this information to Mr. Trump as to how to stop BACK OFFICE jobs migrating outside the US. Jim Fernandes Scarsdale, NY.
