Getting cozy

There are occasions where it is hard to walk a mile in another person’s shoes in order to understand and not judge them – simply because the shoes of the other are standing under a very distant bed. Outsourcing is a scenario for which this observation has been fitting. For a unionized worker in the US state of Georgia (not that there would be high shares of unionized workers there – a political candidate would statistically have to shake 15 employees’ hands before meeting one union member) the concept of outsourcing might easily convey an existential threat of job loss that means economic despair and social bleakness for her and her children. For a young knowledge worker in the Transcaucasian country by the same name (but with roughly 7 percent in nominal GDP when compared to the US state), the concept of outsourcing by contrast might flag a personal economic