the “concept” was that the manufacturing jobs would be replaced with “service” industry jobs WITH equal or greater pay..... WRONG....
technology would offer higher paying jobs and would replace the lost manufacturing jobs...
ok so what bottom line oriented multinational would not want to use the equivalent of slave labor and cheap ocean transport to lower their cost and increase profit... however the social cost is not factored in. And the concept is flawed becuase ultimately it leads to the loss of the middle class (consumers) able to purchase the goods...
the miltinationals have shoveled the social costs onto the very people they have already screwed over.... THE MIDDLE CLASS TAXPAYER.... the poor and the wealthy dont pay taxes.... despite what they say...
So the government in its infinite wisdom has substitutued NEVER ENDING TERROR WAR for a social solution and plans to bring back the draft... again a strategy doomed to failure... WAR costs money... lots of it and the middle class cant afford more taxes... So the entire social structure of America has been sacrificed for CORPORATE PROFITS...
WHEN A JOB GETS SHIFTED OFFSHORE... THAT COMPANY should pay 100% of the unemployment benefits and health care until that person is re-employed... That will slow down the flow offshore. Technology and tech job training should be levied on corporations also. Duties on foreign production will cause a global depression with tariff wars and currency wars...
However not all people are tech oriented so that “solution” wont work. More and more government workers is also not the answer. The only solution is to bring back manufacturing jobs that pay a decent salary and benefits... cut back on government size and scope and budgets... Install a hiring freeze and no salary increases for govenment workers. Let them die off and not be replaced...
I don’t think the problem is so much businesses operating in ways that profit them as it is in businesses then trying to run government along the same principles. It’s a one or the other type of proposition which hinges entirely upon who one owes a fiduciary duty to.