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Why is there some conspiracy for the US government to allow good jobs to leave? They didn't have to do anything, all that happened was that the rest of the worl
by tomjen3 6y ago
Why is there some conspiracy for the US government to allow good jobs to leave? They didn't have to do anything, all that happened was that the rest of the world had rebuilt their bombed out factories and gotten their economy on track. Once the oil crises hit, that was that.
- mensetmanusman 6y agoThe government allowed companies to lower environmental and worker safety standards by outsourcing overseas without including tariffs as a function of said standards. See, the things we buy wouldn’t be so cheap if we didn’t let some companies in china dump toxic waste for free.
- dane-pgp 6y agoI sort of agree with you about using tariffs (at least for issues of global effect, like climate change), but do you think the US government should have a policy goal of making products more expensive for American consumers and/or reducing the amount of toxic waste dumped in China?
- mensetmanusman 6y agoNot more expensive per se, but more truthfully priced. E.g. cheap rare earth minerals from China are only cheap because we are borrowing from the future people who will pay to clean up the mess. When we more accurately price the real cost of goods by quantifying damage to the worker’s health, global environment, etc. then outsourcing would not look nearly as attractive.