I was researching various projects and potential projects for my employer today and came across a review at Network Magazine. The article, entitled Justify Your Existence,” discusses the specific breakdown that makes it more cost efficient to outsource than to keep someone like me on staff.
I don’t mind having to show my value or competing against others to stay employed. However, I am perturbed by the fact that if you took away the $35,000 “benefits” package employers are forced to pay for the cost of hiring a consultant outweighs the cost of keeping in-house employees around.
Most of the “benefits” package is devoted to paying Social Security and Medicare taxes, which is basically the government forcing you, the healthy IT worker to pay for whiny senior citizens to participate in overmedication for the last decade of their lives in a throwaway nursing home.
So if you get laid off this year from your job building HTML applications or providing tech support, remember that Hamid in New Delhi is getting your position because of your own federal government’s policies. And while you’re looking for a new job in the food service industry, take the time to read A 125-Year Picture of the Federal Government’s Share of the Economy, 1950 to 2075 When you get through reading, take a moment to think about how much of your personal earnings have been siphoned off into the federal coffers throughout your lifetime and ponder on how you would have used that money if it hadn’t been taken away from you.