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We aren't " giving away " a damned thing. That's the point, dear.

Jobs, a whole lot of them, have moved from country to country, throughout the ages, and new ones have cropped up. Only one minor example being the manufacture and use of Dungarree ( you know, what jeans used to be called and what that fabric is ), which originated in India and then trnasmogrified to the USA. :-)

In fact, we ARE "giving away" the jobs through legerdemain: the USA subsidizes foreign direct investments through various guarantee programs and indirectly through the IRS code provisions having to do with where income is earned, etc.

As to your point about "jobs moving" all the time--it certainly is not the case that Europe has abandoned manufacturing. Look at the CIA "Factbook" numbers on manufacturing as a percentage of various national GDP's and you will find that in the First World, the USA has the LOWEST percentage (18%); the average is 27%.

Must be those Europeans are all making buggy whips.

The point is: howcomeizzit that all those Europeans RETAIN manufacturing through policy, and the Chinese are FIGHTING for all those manufacturing jobs through whatever means--and the USA doesn't seem to get it?

Maybe the multinationals have really, really good lobbyists?

Duuuhhhhhh.

Fascinating facts about the invention
of the Blue Jeans by Levi Strauss in 1873. BLUE JEANS

The Gold Rush of 1848 attracted many adventurers to California. One of them was a twenty-year-old named Levi Strauss. Strauss had been a draper, or cloth seller, in New York, and he took a few bolts of cloth to sell on the journey west.
In this manner he earned his way, and by the time he reached California, Levi Strauss had sold everything except a roll of canvas. No one wanted clothes made of canvas! Or did they? It turned out that "up in the diggings," where the miners worked, pants wore out very quickly. So Strauss made some pairs of canvas trousers to sell to miners. More and more miners were coming to Strauss and asking him for a pair of those canvas trousers. Not entirely happy with canvas, Levi started using a new fabric from Genoa, Italy The weavers there called the fabric "genes". Strauss changed the name to "jeans" and later he called his pants "Levi’s". They were popular with cowboys as well as miners. Today, called Levi's or blue jeans, they are popular with men, women, and children in many countries of the globe.