International Business There Should Be Essay

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As a society, we allow government to help companies from time to time with tax and trade policy, because those companies create jobs. Part of the social contract of Americans is that we shall help each other out in times of crisis. Yet, this nation is a democracy, and the laws of the land should therefore reflect the will of the people who elected the politicians who wrote those laws and appointed those judges. As such, the categorical imperative is equivalent to the laws, and there are no laws forbidding this outsourcing. Additionally, a case could be made that there exists no social contract to protect American jobs. Our society is a free one, where liberty is valued above all. Employees are hired "at-will" and they have freedom to sever the employer-employee relationship equivalent to the freedom held by corporations.

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There is no mutual obligation, in absence of a valid contract, for either party to assume lifetime employment.

This brings us to the one instance where it would be unethical to offshore these jobs -- if there is a contract. Breaking a contract in order to offshore the jobs is unethical by deontological standards, is probably illegal, and because of the importance to our society that the integrity of contracts be upheld, even a utilitarian could argue that the greatest good is served by maintaining the strength of our system of contract law.

Aside from contractual, however, business has no particular obligation to maintain these jobs in the United States. Business exists to earn profits, and has substantial leeway to pursue that mission, including offshoring jobs.

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