9 POST: OUTSOURCING / OFFSHORING

OUTSOURCING / OFFSHORING 

Cartoon 1.

On this first cartoon we can see Mitt Romney in a little island representing the Cayman Islands. And we can agree the fact that these Islands are one of the most important tax heaven on the world. In the background of the cartoon we can see mountains that represent Switzerland and in front of these mountains there is an other island called Bermuda. We can agree that these three lands all are important tax heaven.  Then in the left corner of the picture we can see a boat arriving to the Cayman Island where Romney is standing. On the boat there is two passengers and there is also a quote write on the boat that says "Believin' In America" and that is a political slogan of Mitt Romney campaign. He talks to the passengers of the boat who are their voters, then we can see that he explain them the difference between Offshore and Outsource and how it can be useful for having more money because you avoid the taxes or you don't have to pay extras and insurance to the workers.  Between the boat and Romney we can see a chest of money and he is doing a hole in order to bury the chest because because you don't have to pay taxes for your money on the Cayman Islands because they are a tax heaven. We could say that this cartoon is a criticism of Mitt Romney because he uses take heaven in order to become more rich and he is doing campaign in order to become the president of the United States of America. 

Cartoon 2. 

On this second cartoon we can see two characters talking to each other about Offshoring. The man on the left with a blue shirt and a red tie explains to the other what happened when he use to offshore his company. He explains that he had created thousands of jobs but even with that the workers are not satisfied, then the second man at the right with a green shirt asks him what the workers want if they are not satisfied then the left men answers getting paid and the right man says unbelievable. It's a criticism of the American business mans that don't care of the situation of his workers in is companies that are situated abroad where the wages are very low compared with Europe. This technique is called offshoring and it is used by a lot of big companies as Nike in China for instance where there are cases of child labor with is illegal in the rich countries but in the poorest countries it's allowed and still used. 

Conclusion.

To put it in a nutshell, I would say that these two documents can be linked with the notion of " Spaces and exchanges" because the offshoring is the relation with the exploitation of the south by the north or in a other way is the relation between the first world and the third one. And how the developed countries who counted with big multinational companies, that they use the offshoring to pay lower wages and insurances to their workers, workers that haven't the same rights that the european workers and the companies takes advantages of that situation.