[oceanview]

they don't understand that. I argue with them on every thread. they don't understand the difference between a job lost due to competition, automation, a business gone bad, etc - and one not "lost", but sent offshore where someone else holds it.

[1rudeboy]

Because we just know (feel, rather) that displaced jobs are lost forever. They just simply evaporate. That's why you see people selling pencils on every street corner.