I would ask: Do you shop at the most expensive grocery store in your neighborhood, or buy the most expensive item (when you have several alternatives)? I would think not, unless you have unlimited finances.
Our unemployed IT workers are the buggy whip makers, or transistor manufacturer employees, or steelworkers of earlier generations. People must re-tool, relocate or resign themselves to obsolescence. This is fact. The government is not going to step in and forbid companies from sending jobs overseas.
That tired old analogy only worked in a badly scripted movie, and it doesn't even partially apply now.
When the automobile industry was growing, the producers and consumers were predominantly in the U.S. The wealth generated from the production and consumption generated by that industry circulated inside the same economy, thus creating and sustaining related and unrelated micro-economies with a ripple effect.
The practice of offshoring for cheaper labor and importing cheaper labor we have experienced in the last two decades produces no ripple effects. The "global" economy stills depends primarily on the US consumers to buy the products, while less and less of the wealth generated from the sales circulates in the US economy to fund the consumption, or sustain any other economic activity. Americans are increasingly borrowing against the assets of the country to finance our economic destruction.
Instead of ripple effects, what we have now is the whirlpool effect of the American economy going down the toilet.
In a little over two decades we have moved from a manufacturing economy, to a high tech/service economy, and now are rapidly evolving into a slave or serf economy with the wealth being concentrated among a small cadre of self-annointed elite and crooked politicians.
This destruction was accomplished by our elected politicians (mostly Democrats, but far too many Republicans) rewriting or creating loopholes in immigration and trade laws, laws which had served the country well for 200 years.
There never has been and never will be a "global" economy. Nations compete, negotiate, and wage war for access to resources and markets, historically trying to win in the interests of their respective peoples. The difference today is that America's politicians have sold out their constituients to this "globalist" fantacy.
Juvenile hollywood explanations cannot cover up the degree of treachery that has been foisted upon the American people or the damage being done to our economy, national security, our sovereignty, and ultimately our survival.
When the economic erosion causes a true red-alert depression in the U.S. then there will be a tidal wave of political dissent. The politicians who attempt to obfuscate and continue the national economic betrayal policies...will be oused. 'Free enterprise' in politics. And then tariffs will be erected to solve the problems. Once and for all. India will become a ghost town for its IT industry. Unfortunately, China has focussed on capturing the actual hardware of industry, and disentangling from them will prove expensive...but just as essential.