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Why not just ban outsourcing to countries with poor labor laws? The commonly stated purpose of the U.S. outsourcing to China was to 1. help lift it out of pover
by staunch 6y ago
Why not just ban outsourcing to countries with poor labor laws? The commonly stated purpose of the U.S. outsourcing to China was to 1. help lift it out of poverty and 2. bring it democracy through capitalism.
Goal #1 has been largely achieved and Goal #2 has been an epic failure. The U.S. should completely phase out outsourcing to China over the next decade. This would drive a huge acceleration of automated manufacturing in the U.S. which is the future anyway.
Companies like Apple could move all manufacturing to the U.S. over a decade if they wanted to. They have the money and the technology. But they're currently addicted to cheap (and unethical) labor. They're unlikely quit on their own, as long as U.S. law enables their addiction.
- valuearb 6y agoSounds like a great way to crush third world countries deeper into poverty. I love it!
- staunch 6y agoSo, you're in favor of maintaining slave labor as long as possible? Got it!
- valuearb 6y agoYour apparently in favor of making it permanent. Jobs like the ones Apple provides in China are a huge part of lifting their workers out of poverty. Without globalization those same workers would be back on the farms going brutal manual labor for far less pay. Do you really care about third world workers, or do you care more about virtue signaling devotion to long discredited political concepts?