> People who are against outsourcing of jobs because it hurts workers have what appears to me to be a small view of the set of humanity that matters. Or, alter

> People who are against outsourcing of jobs because it hurts workers have what appears to me to be a small view of the set of humanity that matters. Or, alternatively, they have a right-sized vision of what the size of their stewardship is. While I certainly think a state as powerful as the US should consider the impacts of its actions elsewhere carefully, and even act benevolently outside its borders where it can, on principle the idea that societies focus on managing general welfare within seems like a pretty good one. > I want to see a world where there aren't poor countries and rich countries, but rather a global economy where someone born in (e.g.) Africa has opportunity and education similar to someone born in the US. I'm interested in that too. Whether barrier-free global-focus trade is the way doesn't seem to me to be a settled question. https://books.google.com/books?id=xEmKBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA192&lpg=PA192#v=onepage https://books.google.com/books?id=xEmKBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA192&lpg=... > Rather than being opposed to trade and globalization Almost nobody is "opposed to trade." Some people may be in favor limits on trade (if you don't believe that there should be assassination markets, you're one of them). Similarly, when it comes to globalization, few people want to make any border entirely non-porous (except as a weapon, as the US has with Cuba), but there's arguments such as Schweitzer's that are compelling. > (which are, frankly, unstoppable) It's certainly not possible to absolutely ban any activity humans might want to engage in for any reason. It's entirely possible to discourage many things substantially enough that the scope/frequency becomes limited. > we should be focused on mitigating losses for those affected. This is a grand idea. > Erecting barriers to trade will only make US industry uncompetitive, our economy smaller, and those same workers, ultimately, worse off. Any barrier? Or just some?