The reason America has been a superpower is because it paid it's labors a good wage. The direction right now is to pay labors next to nothing. That hurts America. Companies that send jobs overseas are doing it based on greed. It's bad for America. Your pretense is flawed. Jobs that pay really low wages is not good for our country.

 

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Unions priced themselves out of the market.

No Politicians working for the major corporations killed the Unions, i.e. killed the middle class.

 

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Completely wrong. There are multiple reasons we became a super power, not least of which is our products were in demand globally. Jacking up the prices every year simply because a union can, increases a products prices/lowers demand/loses markets entirely.

You can hate reality all you want but it doesn't change it.

 

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HAHAHA what a ridiculous thing to say. unions had their powerbase hurt for the same reason all wages have stagnated. Did we all price ourselves out of the market? That statement is monumentally stupid. I honestly can't imagine how many americans like you out there are either so stupid or so petty that you'd want to see our entire labor class(of which you are likely a part) hurt because of a petty grudge you have against unions.

The only union hate I have ever explored follows a very similar line of thought to the AA hate I have explored. Everyone who thinks this way wants to believe that they are awesome and excellent and most other people are poor and less excellent. Therefor any story where somebody else gets over is a travesty, and anything less than whatever success they feel is due their awesome self is probably due to stupid unfair stuff like unions, EEOC, etc.

You people are vile stupid, selfish, and ultimately self defeating. i'm just sorry you have taken the rest of us so far down with you.

 

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Geez - 'Companies' are actually STOCKHOLDRERS, many of which are Union Retirement Funds, and they expect a good return to pay the high retirement incomes the union workers wanted.

It is a vicious circle.


Free Trade = competition and a levelling of the world income structure for workers (I ignore super-waelthy since they are a small number really and don't 'work' in the same manner, ie, they spent a great deal of time and energy creating their wealth wheras most workers suck at it and take the most gain for the least effort).

Closed Borders = lack of exports for competative companies and a lack of imports that more efficiently can be grown/made elsewhere.

Could the USA do it? Sure. But you'd need to get your population down to about 200 Million AND be ready to actually use your nukes again.

 

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i try to always buy locally produced food.


for almost everything else the first thing i look at is if it will suit my needs, then prices. all products i tend to look for Australian Owned > Australian Made > Foreign imports


i will pay more (where reasonable) if the products are equal

 

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it depends on quality


id pay more for good quality products.

im not going to pay double for ikea crap just because its made at their US factory instead of their chinese factory.


i would pay double for a good quality oak table thats made in US over that ikea cookie cutter crap.

 

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It's not a free market when environmental and wage arbitrage allows other countries to compete unfairly.

Either dump the restrictions here, or put tariffs on stuff from countries that don't meet our standards.

 

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+1

 

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