Insourcing: A New Term for Economic Replacement
Outsourcing Displaced Jobs Overseas. Insourcing Replaces Jobs in America.
The Great Replacement (Stop Noticing It)
I remember the first day of my PhD at the University of North Texas when I started to do some noticing. During that first day, we had the entire business school in one room. Of course, I only saw two white people, myself and another. I’ve gotten used to it at this point. But then it got weird. We started going around the room, and it became clear, no one in this room was from America except another student and myself. Out of a room of 40 new admits, 95% were not from the United States.
Again, this is something I’m kind of used to at this point, but this was a bit much. I mean, were there really that few American candidates that they had to import 95% of the class?
The New Corporate Horror: Insourcing
We are all familiar with outsourcing at this point. It’s the reason you call your bank, and a person in the Philippines picks up. It was a bit subtle at first. You call outside office hours, and you might get a person using their “American” name over the phone — “Hello, this is Brian,” — in an accent that makes it painfully obvious his name is not Brian.
But outsourcing at least had one mercy: distance.
The job left. The worker left. The loss was brutal, but it was geographically and psychologically removed. You could still pretend it was unavoidable. Global forces. Inevitable change. The invisible hand.
Insourcing is different.
Insourcing is what happens when the job does not leave the country, but the worker does.
This is the new corporate horror. And almost no one has named it. No one seems to be able to put this new horror into words, so I will call it right here. You are being insourced.
What is Insourcing?
Insourcing is the practice of importing foreign labor to replace domestic workers inside the United States itself. Not to supplement. Not to fill true shortages. To replace.
It achieves the same goal as outsourcing:
• Lower wages
• Reduced bargaining power
• Greater managerial control
But it does so without moving a single office or factory overseas.
The worker comes to you.
Instead of shipping the job abroad, corporations ship in the labor. Same arbitrage. Same savings. Far fewer complications.
And unlike outsourcing, you cannot turn it off by reshoring. The replacement is already here.
No one voted for this.
No one approved this.
No one asked how this affects American families who used to take pride in their work.
But this shift wasn’t based on competence, or shortages, or the mythical “work Americans won’t do.” Of course, no one ever asked American’s if they would do it, because they didn’t want to hire American’s. They’re too expensive. Easier to hire indentured servants from India. They’re one screw up from your revoking their visa, so they’ll work as long as you want.
Indentured Labor and Wage Suppression
Indentured labor systems emerge whenever elites seek to reduce labor costs without formally abolishing free labor. The structure is consistent across history, regardless of moral framing.
Core features of indentured labor systems:
• Legal freedom paired with economic immobility
• Employment contracts that restrict exit or retaliation
• Dependency on a single sponsor or owner
• Asymmetric power between worker and employer
These features do not require ownership. They require leverage.
Historical Example: Indentured Servants in Colonial America
Indentured servants in the 17th and 18th centuries were not slaves, but they were not free laborers either.
• Contracts bound them to employers for years
• Leaving early resulted in legal penalties
• Wages were fixed or nonexistent
• Employers exercised near-total control
The economic effect was immediate and well-documented:
• Free laborers faced downward wage pressure
• Skilled trades were devalued
• Labor mobility declined
• Employers preferred bound labor over free workers
Indenture did not coexist neutrally with free labor. It displaced it.
Slave Labor as an Extreme Case
Slave labor represents the endpoint of this same mechanism.
Where slavery existed:
• Labor costs approached zero
• Free labor could not compete
• Wages for non-slave workers stagnated or fell
• Economic power consolidated among owners (Why is everything owned by corporations?! Hmmmm…)
This is why regions dependent on slave labor consistently underdeveloped diversified wage markets. The presence of coerced labor collapses the labor price floor.
Modern Parallel: Visa-Tethered Labor
Modern guest-worker and temporary visa programs replicate the same economic constraints without explicit ownership.
Examples include H-1B, L-1, H-2A/B, and OPT arrangements.
Functional similarities:
• Worker’s legal status depends on employer sponsorship
• Job loss risks deportation
• Switching employers is restricted, delayed, or impossible
• Complaints invite retaliation through visa revocation
From an economic standpoint, this creates a de facto indenture.
Wage Effects in Practice
Employers gain access to a labor pool that:
• Accepts below-market wages
• Cannot credibly threaten to quit
• Cannot unionize effectively
• Cannot litigate without existential risk
The predictable outcome:
• Wage suppression across the sector
• Displacement of domestic workers
• Increased employer leverage
• Declining job quality even for retained workers
American Companies: You’re Bad, and You Should Feel Bad
The death of shame has been so much worse than we thought it would be. I could have never predicted insourcing. I mean, I really thought we had a modicum of national pride. Unfortunately, globalism has convinced everyone that they’re part of some fake global community. Well, really only the Western, White ones.
Let me be very clear, there is no global community. You are either an American or you are against the entire world.
There is always someone in the third world who will take $14 dollars an hour in lieu of your $28.
Call it “diversity.”
Cash the bonus.
And when the quality collapses?
Blame the consumer.
It’s not “immigration.”
It’s labor arbitrage and justified as compassion.
“Strength through diversity.”
No, it’s cheapness through disloyalty.
And the message to the entire working population of this country is crystal clear:
You are optional.
Your replacement just arrived on a flight subsidized by your tax dollars.
Even the “most patriotic”, the most “military friendly bank”, has sold out. No one is safe.
The Visa Scam: H-1B as a Replacement Pipeline
If you want to understand insourcing, you have to understand the H-1B visa. The public has been sold this fantasy for decades, that the H-1B program brings in the “best and brightest” from all over the world. A high-skill talent infusion to keep America competitive.
That’s a dog faced lie.
Here’s the truth:
More than 70% of H-1B visas go to entry-level jobs requiring no advanced skill.
Most of these workers are placed into basic IT, customer service, and routine office roles.
They aren’t replacing geniuses, they’re replacing you.
The H-1B is not a “shortage” visa.
It’s a wage suppression visa.
A few ugly facts:
• Companies are legally allowed to pay H-1B workers up to 40% less for the same job
• Those workers are indentured, tied to their employer by visa status
• The worker can’t complain, can’t leave, and can’t negotiate, ever
• If the job demands submission? They submit.
Who benefits?
