POST 17: OUTSOURCING/OFFSHORING: Two Cartoons

In this cartoon we can see a man that we guess is Mitt Romney (because of his face and treasure box with the name ROMNEY written on it) with his gran-children (they call him "granpa"). They are in the Cayman Islands, very known place for offshoring (between others), and they have a boat called "Believin In America".  Also, Romney is explaining to his gran-chlidren how to keep all of their money to theirselves by not paying taxes thanks to offshoring and pay less their workers thanks to outsourcing. Romney is/was known and satirized a lot for offshoring all of his money which is not at all fruitfull for the economy but only for the personal interest of the richest, like him.

In this second cartoon, we see a man explaining to his fellow that he had to "move to the next country", talking about outsourcing, saying that they (probably his company) offered thousands of jobs in a poor country, making himself look like a savior and explaining that the reason he "moved" was because the people wanted to get paid, as if it was not normal. In this cartoon, we also see another non-ethical way to profit to the economy, but this time at a bigger scale, although here, human lives are not considered at all.

Both of these cartoons deal with the hypocrisy of capitalism in developed countries like the United States, whose values are freedom and equality between humans but do everything they can, through outsourcing and offshoring, to keep the money to themselves even by stealing it to other people.