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> If the system properly redistributed the profits from moving the factory abroad to, say, education and retraining and job placement programs to the American w
by gnaritas 11y ago
> If the system properly redistributed the profits from moving the factory abroad to, say, education and retraining and job placement programs to the American workers, then we wouldn't be having this debate in the first place.
Yes we would, but it'd be the employers complaining about the unjustified entitlement of the American workers who think the company owes them profits and retraining. Why should a factory in Mexico pay out profits to unemployed Americans to deal with their employment issues? By what justification does a company "owe" the workers anything beyond wages for labor?
- Apocryphon 11y agoThis gets into more abstract and ideological concepts about citizenship and moral duty and so forth, but at the end of the day an American company still needs to pay taxes, and so the idea would be taxes on revenue from free trade would go to alleviating the state of unemployed workers. If the employers don't like it, they can reincorporate in Mexico.