In the United States, Where Outsourcing Is Almost Always Addressed

question 12

Multiple Choice

In the United States, where outsourcing is almost always addressed negatively, companies still get away with outsourcing.How do they do this?

• A)Capital flight, caused by outsourcing, helps local economies thrive, so Americans are willing to make the trade off.
• B)Deindusrialization, also caused by outsourcing, is better for the environment, so Americans are in favor of it.
• C)Americans want lower prices for their consumable products, and the only way for companies to deliver those low prices is to outsource the work to cheaper laborers.
• D)Companies find that the many U.S.restrictions on manufacturing can seriously disrupt production, which leads to profit loss, which in turn results in outsourcing.

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