I am sorry I thought you had posted something about being in favor of wealth redistribution so I apologize for being incorrect about that.
I guess that we can agree to disagree about the value of labor. I think that capital and technology and research also play a far greater role in the production of goods and services then labor does with regards to private enterprise. You did once again refer to the exploitation of employees in other nations when in reality those exploited people probably have it a hell of alot better then their native citizens who do not have the jobs that they have. Once again, you view them as exploited simply because they get paid much less and have a much lower standard of living then the American counterpart who does the exact same job.
If the output of the two laborers is the same then isn’t the value of the product the same as well?
So your answer is to force the jobs to be in America simply to support an artificially high lifestyle?
Doesnt that seem peculiar to you?
I think the answer that you and I and everyone else knows to be true is the one we don’t want to face which is we have an incredibly high standard of living which is really not possible to maintain in the era of globalization. You can have as many isolationist policies as you like but eventually it will catch up. It really is not sustainable. A car is a car, a computer is a computer, they do not become more valuable because you paid an American 20x more to work on the line then you paid the Malaysian.
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It seems to me that perhaps one single possibility is to end all lobbying. No union contributions, no private contributions, no individual competitions. I thing ending political careers is good as well. There is no reason that anyone needs to be in congress or the senate for 30 years. A one or two term limit on any office seems to make sense to me. Perhaps a limit on advertising and campaining as well… At least some limitation such that the guy with the most money cannot win an election by bombarding the public with appearances and/or advertising.
The govt doesnt serve the people, it stopped doing that long ago.
