Creators and manufacturers would much rather stay where the legal system protects property rights, including intellectual property, but they are guaranteed to be stripped of their wealth if they remain here, so they gamble and leave.
BS, off-shoring is caused by unskilled labor which cost around 5% of what it costs in the US, and by higher skilled and degreed workers available for 20% and less of US pay scales.
I’ll give you the crony capitalism, but offshoring is caused by the government subsidizing corporate investment overseas and guaranteeing their investments should they lose it because they did business with communist dictators in an unstable political environment.
The government used offshoring as bribes to get other things the globalists and neocons in our government were interested in. For example, they could get their hands on foreign aid money and distribute it to their corporate cronies without having ask congress for the money. Look at Condoleeza Rice and her board status of a ‘government’ corporation, the Millenium Challenge Corp.
The government used offshoring as a tool to implement directives from globalist cabals like the WTO, the World Bank, and the G20.
Much of our federal policy is negotiated outside this country, outside of the federal record and laws that require records of meetings and ‘sunshine’ on what our politicians do when they travel abroad. This has for all intents and purposes obsoleted congress from their duties as lawmakers, as laws are now written and implemented as written by global corporations seeking to institutionalize tax money infusions into their businesses.
India negotiates the H1B visa levels at the Doha, and other WTO ‘rounds’. They tell Congress what they want and they get it because globalists have insinuated themselves into every part of our government.
The government, and I mean Bush 1, Clinton,and Bush 2 used offshoring of manufacturing to slave labor countries, to reduce the costs of some goods so the economic indexes would not show inflation. In return, slave labor using nations like China, purchased Treasury bonds under newly implemented globalists rules for foreign investment , to keep a cash flow going into the government so it could expand astronomically in size.
That is really why offshoring was begun and why it is still being subsidized by wage earning American’s taxes. It is designed to destroy free enterprise in the American economy, lower American standard of living and redistribute our wealth to the corrupt antiAmerican transnational corporations and foreign governments similar to Mexico’s mordita.