Also consider that robotics is automating many repetitive jobs. If the third world labor don't get you the robots will.
We are entering a new economic paradigm. it's hard to see how it will work. I don't know if it is possible to stop it. Certainly we can fight for fair trade. But if we try to reverse course, I think we will be left in the dust by rest of the world.
He pointed out that one man with a bulldozer could do the job in a couple of days, to which his Chinese guide replied "Yes, but we could not cope with the resulting unemployment."
Friedman's response: "Well, if it's employment you want to guarantee, then throw away the shovels and give them all spoons."
"central_va" and his colleagues are the Spoon Brigade.