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Because the United States is a sovereign nation founded for the benefit of its citizens and their posterity, not an economic zone for the benefit of the profit
by clairamerican12 8y ago
Because the United States is a sovereign nation founded for the benefit of its citizens and their posterity, not an economic zone for the benefit of the profit of transnational corporations that only exist the way they do because of the legal system, civic institutions, international influence, and military power of the US.
- throwaway28473 8y agoIn the long term, Cisco needs to be competitive in the global marketplace to survive. When you force companies like Cisco to pay above market rates, it benefits American workers in the short term but over time the company will lose to e.g. Huawei who are operating in a much more favourable regulatory environment. At that point, America loses in a big way.
- clairamerican12 8y agoHuawei's favorable regulatory environment has less to do with its ability to bring in foreign labor like Cisco and other US tech companies, and more to do with trade barriers set up by China for national security purposes (also, potentially other actions in violation of its membership in the WTO). The US claims Huawei as a national security threat, because the Chinese government could be using their devices to backdoor critical infrastructure. In the same manner, China claims Cisco as a national security threat [1]. The point here is that the spherical cow of all things being rootless, unbound, purely individual and rational economic transactions does not actually exist. Behaving as if it does is a loss for your group as other groups adopt more mercantile policy. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-06-25/cisco-china-sales-vulnerable-as-media-urge-domestic-shift https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-06-25/cisco-chi...
- conanbatt 8y agoIt is for the benefits of americans as a whole to get workers that produce more than what they cost.