> Retain sufficient in-house production manufacturing that it is possible for future engineers to acquire the skills needed to develop new products, without which all businesses will fail. Even the work that is out-sourced requires internal expertise to write the specifications.
This x1000 is what has led so many large government projects - no matter if in IT, construction, healthcare, military - go completely nuts.
When there is no one to write the specifications, the "consultants" writing the specifications instead will write them in a way that allows their closely related industry friends to deliver bullshit, and since the government doesn't have experts any more (because they are "too expensive" for shoestring budgets), it can't realize that it's being led by the nose.
When there are no experts to audit a project, no one can detect bullshit being designed, built or delivered until it's such a colossal failure that it cannot be hidden any more.
When there are no experts to maintain a project that miraculously got completed and delivered after years of delays and billions of overruns, eventually even the best project will go and rot.
And even in the private sector, this same concept holds. Just ask any F500 employee whose company "outsourced" their IT or anything else not "core of the business" to India or Pakistan to the cheapest bidder, or their building cleaning service or facility management, about what service quality they receive and how much upper management cares about that.
The general ideology of outsourcing everything that's not "core of the business" is the single utter scourge of modern ultra-capitalism.
This x1000 is what has led so many large government projects - no matter if in IT, construction, healthcare, military - go completely nuts.
When there is no one to write the specifications, the "consultants" writing the specifications instead will write them in a way that allows their closely related industry friends to deliver bullshit, and since the government doesn't have experts any more (because they are "too expensive" for shoestring budgets), it can't realize that it's being led by the nose.
When there are no experts to audit a project, no one can detect bullshit being designed, built or delivered until it's such a colossal failure that it cannot be hidden any more.
When there are no experts to maintain a project that miraculously got completed and delivered after years of delays and billions of overruns, eventually even the best project will go and rot.
And even in the private sector, this same concept holds. Just ask any F500 employee whose company "outsourced" their IT or anything else not "core of the business" to India or Pakistan to the cheapest bidder, or their building cleaning service or facility management, about what service quality they receive and how much upper management cares about that.
The general ideology of outsourcing everything that's not "core of the business" is the single utter scourge of modern ultra-capitalism.