Aug. 3 — Looking for a high-paying tech job? Good luck. Offshore outsourcing—the exporting of jobs that were once done in-house—has been on the increase, to the point where a report by Gartner Inc., an information technology research firm, calls the movement of tech-related jobs an “irreversible megatrend.”

How could this potentially affect workers in these jobs?
Lots of workers, in lots of occupations, will be displaced. Economists may say that these people will find other work. But the jobs they find may pay significantly lower wages. Or they may have given up trying to find an IT job. What’s dysfunctional about policy-making in the United States is that the Washington elite have been pushing the idea that we have a shortage of scientists and engineers.