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If you can build a car for cheaper elsewhere, why wouldn't you? If your goal is to keep people gainfully employed, well how about working on improving their ski
by cycrutchfield 7y ago
If you can build a car for cheaper elsewhere, why wouldn't you? If your goal is to keep people gainfully employed, well how about working on improving their skills so that a laborer in a developing country isn't more productive than they are?
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- melling 7y agoThe workers in the cheaper country don’t need to be as productive. If you’re paying them 5x less in total compensation, and they’re half as productive, you’re still better off with the cheaper labor. No healthcare, no pensions, no environmental laws will save a company lots of money.
- unethical_ban 7y agoAh, you confused productive with cheap.
- mrkurt 7y agoAre you asking why a corporation wouldn't build stuff cheaper elsewhere, or why we as a populace might want to prevent it? Because those are two different questions with two different answers.
- mensetmanusman 7y agoBecause if it is only cheaper because of hidden costs (tragedy of the commons in game theory, environmental disasters in this one), then the game is rigged, and only the wealthy are benefiting while they poison the unwashed masses.