I'm not grumpy but companies do export jobs to countries with "looser labor standards" and perhaps treat employees like slave labor (or actual slaves!) but more importantly lower salaries. Other [competing] companies who didn't export their jobs will still have to compete in the same market. If the product involves enough labor we cant pay very good salaries. The other company must now do the same. It is like multinationals are not sneakily trying to avoid taxes, if it is possible and everyone else is doing it they must also do it.
The "robust middle class" is a misconception. Jobs just vanish which renders people without any income and it pushes salaries down where products are not very labor intense. It would be preferable to scale down all salaries to match those paid in other countries. At least people would have work! (which isn't actually all that important) The political wiggle room is not sufficient to lower the salaries to you know 1 dollar-ish per day or anything in that direction.
The real issue is that people in all those other countries get to elect or otherwise install their own law makers or dictators. We have been unable to manufacture good law makers, dictators and other rules. They are of unbearably low quality, their price can be in the hundreds of millions of lives. You would think at prices that high you would get a decent product but nothing could be further from the truth.
You could have their country men make your pants, your shoes, your computer, your food, your bed, your car, your... your... everything and they will do it really cheap, big profit margins for the companies.
And then, one day, it all ends or it might not end but they may make any demand, however insane the implications you would have to suck it up or at least consider sucking it up with the alternative being no pants, no shoes, no computer, no food, no bed and no car - all simultaneously!
We are currently trying the no gas thing here in the EU. It seems an obvious problem but then prices are going all the way up even in countries that produce their own gas!?
Not having pants or shoes might be the least of your problems.
I'm not grumpy, I'm confused people trust Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin that much. They logically have no reason to.
What you want is a world where each country can take care of it self and, if a crisis or natural disaster strikes we can be there for them.
If any one crazy ruler can take the whole world down the abys you would have to wonder why we build it like that?
The "robust middle class" is a misconception. Jobs just vanish which renders people without any income and it pushes salaries down where products are not very labor intense. It would be preferable to scale down all salaries to match those paid in other countries. At least people would have work! (which isn't actually all that important) The political wiggle room is not sufficient to lower the salaries to you know 1 dollar-ish per day or anything in that direction.
The real issue is that people in all those other countries get to elect or otherwise install their own law makers or dictators. We have been unable to manufacture good law makers, dictators and other rules. They are of unbearably low quality, their price can be in the hundreds of millions of lives. You would think at prices that high you would get a decent product but nothing could be further from the truth.
You could have their country men make your pants, your shoes, your computer, your food, your bed, your car, your... your... everything and they will do it really cheap, big profit margins for the companies.
And then, one day, it all ends or it might not end but they may make any demand, however insane the implications you would have to suck it up or at least consider sucking it up with the alternative being no pants, no shoes, no computer, no food, no bed and no car - all simultaneously!
We are currently trying the no gas thing here in the EU. It seems an obvious problem but then prices are going all the way up even in countries that produce their own gas!?
Not having pants or shoes might be the least of your problems.
I'm not grumpy, I'm confused people trust Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin that much. They logically have no reason to.
What you want is a world where each country can take care of it self and, if a crisis or natural disaster strikes we can be there for them.
If any one crazy ruler can take the whole world down the abys you would have to wonder why we build it like that?