“I see I’ve illustrated my point nicely.”
Yep, in your mind you’ve successfully proved an apple is an orange. Congrats.
For years free traders here have cheered offshoring. Not every single one, (a nod to your parsing), but most. The cheering involved 2 points, #1 - It would free Americans to do more “important” service and knowledge based jobs. #2 - It would build up foreign markets so that we could sell our services and knowledge.
Yes, I know that the regulatory and tax environment is a factor, but rather than flog Republicans to take that into account, free traders took the approach that cutting costs along with #1 and #2 above were preferable to fighting to keep a manufacturing base in America.
How’s that working out for us?
I think what wasn’t considered is that it is even easier to outsource services and knowledge as it was manufacturing. If we were doing this among like countries it would not be such a bad idea, but doing this with 3rd world hell holes and worse, with communists, it just not a winning situation.
Free traders "cheer" economic liberty. Protectionists, not so much. That's why they twist themselves into pretzels pretending that they hear things.
I could tell you that the economy is dynamic (and I will), and years later you will claim that I am indifferent to folks losing their jobs.