Well I disagree with your claim that the balance of trade is unimportant.
In my view it is critical, and America is giving away the farm.
I understand and agree with your claim about division of labor. Though I believe that is somewhat limited to the situation, of the specific example.
Jobs have much different variances, in the situations an employee encounters each day.
Some jobs, for example simple manufacturing jobs, can be very simple, although the simplest manufacturing tends to be the simplest to automate - eliminating the need for employees. Some can be extraordinarily complex. Some remain the same. Some change dramatically.
I would say the more complex jobs, and those which change relatively frequently, are jobs which would tend to less automation.
They are all different.
What isn’t different, is that America has sent far too many jobs, to other countries.
Bring back jobs to America.
So we have your opening opinion that jobs are basically unchanging, and it doesn’t matter whether they are done in America.
We have my own opinion that we very badly need to bring a whole lot of jobs back to America.
There is a lot we agree on. But I believe we need to have a whole lot more emphasis on bringing jobs back to America. You don’t.
OK back to you.
I do believe that we must work to make America more productive. I don’t really know what you mean by “bring jobs back to America” other than that you want to end or force-balance trade with China.
So you can see that division of labor at the Wilson Football Plant is critical to not only the success of Wilson, Inc., but to each employee as well and that’s important.
Did you also notice all the machinery? At one stage a guy uses just a metal rod to turn the footballs right-side out. Did you see that? That rod, along with all the machinery, is capital. Labor without capital is very, very inefficient. Think of a carpenter without a hammer.
So labor and capital go together, but what if a machine was made that could replaced the guy who turns the footballs right-side out, would it be OK to replace that worker with a more efficient machine? What about if another worker could do his job more efficiently, would it be OK to use a more efficient worker?