I think it's pretty rational given capitalism's explicit focus on short-term profit at the expense of negative externalities. Workers are replaceable. The US ou

I think it's pretty rational given capitalism's explicit focus on short-term profit at the expense of negative externalities. Workers are replaceable. The US outsourced its manufacturing sector. Now the same people who oversaw that process would like to outsource the service sector. I'm not a fan of the status quo, but it's clearly functioning as designed. The cruelty of this mostly affecting individual artists and their ability to generate a living rather than behemoths like Disney is absolutely the point.