[Angelino97]

You can’t have “free” trade with a country who pays $10 a week for labor. We can never compete.

The "libertarian response" is that cheap foreign labor ...

1. Uplifts foreign workers (a good thing).

2. Provides American consumers with cheap goods (a good thing).

3. Shifts American workers into more productive, higher-paying jobs (i.e., learn to code).

Thus, from a global utilitarian perspective, it provides for an optimum allocation of resources, both of capital and labor. Everyone benefits.

Well, that's the "libertarian response."

[packrat35]

That’s why I am not a libertarian. We already did that and it is killing the middle class. We learned to code and then they shipped those jobs to India and brought them here and made us train our “replacements”...

libertarians are open borders nitwits also...