You are an idiot. Let's say both workers make 100 widget per hour. Widgets cost $25 each retail.
Per widget the US worker costs .25 the 3rd worlder .06 per widget. SHOULD WE SELL OUT OUR ENTIRE INDUSTRIAL BASE FOR 19 cents per $25 retail? REALLY???? F no...
It was sort of a rhetorical question. No, I’m not an idiot for simply asking. Asking the question is a form of starting a conversation, not looking for indults.
And you did sort of engage in a conversation a little in your post. but I have to ask, if you can make widgets for $10 each in the US and $1 each in another country, and both are going to be sold for the same price retail, and shipping costs are $1 per widget from the other country, where are you going to manufacture them, all other things being equal?
Well, it’s not that we’re intgentionally selling our our entire industrial base for 19 cents an hour. NO, what we are doing is individually choosing to buy the chinese made saw at $25 instead of the US made one for $40. And the result is this: Go to home depot and compare tools in quality and manufacturing source - and price. Which one are you going to buy? That’s why virtually the entire tool section is made in China.