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No one took our jobs. We gave them our jobs when we started pretending our salary was more worth than it actually was. If we want our jobs back, we must accept
by pif 10y ago
No one took our jobs. We gave them our jobs when we started pretending our salary was more worth than it actually was. If we want our jobs back, we must accept either a Chinese-level salary or to pay more just because production is local. In any way, we must give up the added value that our salary gained when we started buying cheaper without questioning where the rebate was coming from.
It worked for some time: we could buy more goods with the same salary. Until the salary was no more.
- VLM 10y ago"In any way, we must give up the added value" Often the added value is just not caring about people far away dying. Fundamentally a lot of low labor goods are offshored because the toxic waste dump is someones backyard, if employees die due to lack of safety gear that's simply not an issue, etc. If we were honest with ourselves we'd use trade policy either to foist the EPA and OSHA on the entire planet, or remove them as a restraint against locals. People usually are not honest with themselves of course.