POST 13: OUTSOURCING/OFFSHORING: Two Cartoons

In this picture we can see on the left a father and her daughter speaking to their grandfather, (on the right) Mitt Romney. These two are sitting at the front of a ship, with the inscription "Belivin' in America". On the right we can see Mitt Romney digging a hole on the sand with a chess plenty of money. The island where they are is the Cayman Islands, and on the backdoor we can see the Bermuda and Switzerland with a cross where we suppose he put more money. 

Here we see a satiric cartoon of the situation of companies or politicians in the US and other countries also. Matson, denounces here outsourcing as a way of exploitation of workers from other countries, and offshoring as a way to evade taxes, even those who are suppose to be so patriotic, that they would do everything for their country, except pay taxes as all people do... A comic part is that the girl said "you should be president" and he lost the elections on 2008. Also the inscription on the boat makes a paradox with the situation.

In this picture we see two persons speaking. On the left a guy with a blue t-shirt and a red tie and on the right a guy with a grey t-shirt.

The drawer, geek and poke, here make also a satiric and ironic cartoon, where he denounces offshoring. So here the guy on the left said that they relocated a company in another country and give jobs to a lot of people, but those people ask more than that, to be paid. We know that when a company is offshore, the people from that country would be pay less than the country where the company was, but here they don’t pay anything to them, and the guy on the right said "unbelievable", as if it was totally abnormal to ask that. So the drawer here denounces the exploitation of people of foreign countries that don’t get any money for their jobs, as it can be seen in China or India nowadays, people who work in terrible conditions and don’t earn too much money. A sad true.

So in conclusion, these two pictures, within the notion of Spaces and Exchanges, show the globalisation, the exchanges between different countries in the world of business, here with the actions of offshoring or outsourcing. We can see the trades between north countries and south countries, as exchanges in fiscal paradises, or relocation of companies. Finally these two pictures criticize the exploitation of big companies in south countries, where they don’t pay they workers practically anything.