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Outsourcing benefits the consumers by keeping prices and inflation down. This helps the poor and elderly on fixed income the most. The reason so many people w
by mozumder 9y ago
Outsourcing benefits the consumers by keeping prices and inflation down. This helps the poor and elderly on fixed income the most. The reason so many people want Wal Marts in their town is because elderly people demand it, and they're a strong voting bloc.
And there are far more consumers than there are factory workers, so outsourcing is more of a benefit than a negative in an economy.
Give manufacturing to the cheapest foreign labor. It's a good thing. This is why things like NAFTA are a net benefit to the US economy.
The obvious solution for the secondary problems this creates is to increase local industries for local jobs. What can someone do here that absolutely must be done here, instead of by a person in China?
Things like construction works well, where you need someone local to build something since it can't be outsourced - you need to be here. Other traditionally conservative jobs like farming and mining would also be included, but also things like teaching and retail and other service jobs.
The long-term solution is higher-skill jobs, pushing the state-of-the art since US has the top universities.
- BrainInAJar 9y agoFreedom of capital movement without freedom of labour movement privileges the capital class over the labour class. The only equitable free trade agreements include the right to follow the jobs, such as the EU.
- mozumder 9y agoThe neoliberal position also includes freedom-of-labor-movement. It's why you had people like Hillary pushing for open borders in her speeches to Goldman Sachs.
- BrainInAJar 9y agoThe irrelevancy of the nation state is something neoliberals and socialists agree on, yes.
- 1stranger 9y agoThese towns are too small to support the higher skill jobs with state of the art universities. They have no means of self-support.