But the problem is -- when a programmer gets laid off he still has a family to feed, a mortgage to pay. He might make ends meet by working two jobs --- maybe a $6 an hour job at Walmart and a $5.15 an hour job at McDonalds --- but that isn't going to leave him much time to innovate new products. Anyhow the new products would be sent to India because the labor is much cheaper there.
Our society values secular politics and secular capitalism. This has not changed significantly over time and are components of carburetor that feeds our social engine. What has changed is that the engine works best when the same people that value this secularism in these societal components also value their own individualism and hold dear a compassionate, charitable, humanist belief system.
The boomer generation ridiculed and demonized the traditional sources of that belief system, choosing instead either an "if it feels good, do it" system on one extreme or a collectivist, secularist, extortionist system "for the common good" (or "for the children") system. Both belief systems choke the air intake of the social engine.
I think that's what I find troubling in the protectionist and socialistic posts that often appear in these threads.
Anyhow the new products would be sent to India because the labor is much cheaper there.
No, the products may be manufactured there, but the entrepreneur and perhaps employer would remain here. The products would also likely be sold here as well as elsewhere.