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How do TPP and other trade deals which allow Chinese people to compete economically with Americans destroy jobs? I'm assuming, of course, that Chinese are peopl

How do TPP and other trade deals which allow Chinese people to compete economically with Americans destroy jobs? I'm assuming, of course, that Chinese are people too.(I've never been there but I've met a few of them. They didn't seem that different from me.) Out of curiosity, did ending Jim Crow (allowing blacks to compete economically with whites) also destroy jobs? Can we create prosperity by making up arbitrary divisions and then imposing internal trade barriers?

crdoconnor 11y ago
>How do TPP and other trade deals which allow Chinese people to compete economically with Americans destroy jobs? By moving factories which previously employed Americans to countries where they don't, leaving those Americans unemployed. All of that cheap stuff you buy at Walmart that was made by Americans pre-1990 isn't now all made by robots. >Out of curiosity, did ending Jim Crow (allowing blacks to compete economically with whites) also destroy jobs? No. No jobs were moved overseas via Jim Crow laws to take advantage of lax labor and environmental laws. Out of curiosity have you ever looked into the details of any of these trade deals? Because many of them implicitly support slavery. Does that matter to you?
- yummyfajitas 11y ago
  By moving factories which previously employed Americans to countries where they don't, leaving those Americans unemployed. Assuming you are right that those Americans remain unemployed, you are completely ignoring the newly employed Chinese people. Do they count for nothing? Not even 3/5? Out of curiosity, since your calculus is explicitly putting zero value on Chinese people, why would you care about Chinese slaves?
  - crdoconnor 11y ago
    Are you saying that the employment prospects of Chinese people are the responsibility of the US government but implicitly supporting slavery isn't?

crdoconnor 11y ago

>How do TPP and other trade deals which allow Chinese people to compete economically with Americans destroy jobs? By moving factories which previously employed Americans to countries where they don't, leaving those Americans unemployed. All of that cheap stuff you buy at Walmart that was made by Americans pre-1990 isn't now all made by robots. >Out of curiosity, did ending Jim Crow (allowing blacks to compete economically with whites) also destroy jobs? No. No jobs were moved overseas via Jim Crow laws to take advantage of lax labor and environmental laws. Out of curiosity have you ever looked into the details of any of these trade deals? Because many of them implicitly support slavery. Does that matter to you?

yummyfajitas 11y ago
By moving factories which previously employed Americans to countries where they don't, leaving those Americans unemployed. Assuming you are right that those Americans remain unemployed, you are completely ignoring the newly employed Chinese people. Do they count for nothing? Not even 3/5? Out of curiosity, since your calculus is explicitly putting zero value on Chinese people, why would you care about Chinese slaves?
- crdoconnor 11y ago
  Are you saying that the employment prospects of Chinese people are the responsibility of the US government but implicitly supporting slavery isn't?