They can always move those factories to India or Eastern Europe.<p>And the biggest reason for outsourcing labor is for reducing the costs involved ... that's why I don't get why aren't they working on more advanced industrial robots and why is Japan the only one having breakthroughs in this regard ... probably because of unions, but what's worse ... outsourcing work or fully automated factories in your own country (that creates more jobs for engineers)? IMHO, it's the former.<p>And please note that with this statement I'm probably shooting myself in the foot ... since working on outsourced projects is at times my only source of income :)