Tomato Sauce
How much do you love tomato sauce? Do you squirt it on a sausage, pop it on a pie or save it for your sav?
Most Aussies see tomato sauce – or “dead horse” - as a food group all of its own, perched at the very top of a food pyramid composed of meat pies, sausage rolls, lamingtons and pavlova.
In this country it’s a cultural symbol to rival thongs (the footwear, not the undies), Vegemite, and Iced VoVos.
I reckon the Internet has turned the average person into an outsourcer and even “offshorer”. A shirt made here, self-designed wedding invitations printed there – too easy.
In fact, I sometimes find that the same person who rants about jobs going offshore tells you with glee how they got something made cheaply overseas.
I have mixed feelings about outsourcing. Moving jobs to Australia’s regional cities = good; improving standards of living in developing nations = good; Australians losing their jobs = bad; workers exploited here or anywhere = bad.
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RyaN says:
Fact is that you pay import duties on items manufactured overseas. The items value is based on raw materials and work hours. The same should apply to imported work hours, a company who outsources should have to make a declaration much the same as tax (and can be investigated) where… Read more »
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Sharkjumper says:
Before you assume that outsourcing is purely a response to the high cost of labour in Australia, please consider the following. Outsourcing is often an easy/lazy way of compensating for poor onshore products. I worked for what was once one of Australia’s largest telcos and watched as a series of… Read more »
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