The main reason that firms outsource is that: low-wage workers in other countries are more productive than are u. s. workers. hiring low-wage workers reduces firms' costs. hiring low-wage workers provides a tax deduction to firms. u. s. workers cannot perform the tasks performed by workers in other countries.

Driving would be more pleasant if we didn't have to put up with the bad habits of other drivers. a newspaper reported the results of a valvoline oil company survey of 500 drivers in which the drivers marked their complaints about other drivers. the top complaints turned out to be tailgating, marked by 24% of the respondents; not using turn signals, marked by 19%; being cut off, marked by 15%; other drivers driving too slowly, marked by 12%; and other drivers being inconsiderate marked by 5%.