Is it really competition or just shifting of public costs?
On this, Trump basically tells them what they feel. They’ve been sold down the river. If fact, Trump will tell them they’ve been sold down the river and admit to doing himself to stay competitive with every other company doing it. Bernie says much the same.
Prime example, Disney’s failed outsource of theme park IT or Trump’s own use of H2bs to clean his hotel.
My former employees in India were making the equivalent of about $3/hr when you factor their 60 hour weeks. Of course, once they left the office, you were out of luck as they didn’t have home internet service nor reliable cell service.
Or in the case of China, couple the above with the below to figure out why stuff made there is so cheap.
I’m not really willing to be great again and “competitive” if to do so we need to look like the above.
There are costs to having a modern society. Educating our kids, providing health care and making sure all people participate in the economic rewards of our society.