What are the SOLUTIONS to jobs taken by technology and overseas slave labor cheap products?

Chrissy wrote:
after thinking about this long and hard. I personally think that if Americans want more jobs here, they need to start supporting products made here. There is the problem. We want cheap, we don't care and then the other problem, so many people don't want jobs and just don't give a shit.

boards of FL wrote:
You have just zeroed in on the reason as to why libertarian philosophy is completely full of shit.  

Jake92 wrote:Imagine the sewing machine operators working for minumum wage making the clothing we wear..  Will the stores sell the things made here for the same price they sell something from Indonesia for when it costs them more to buy them??  The bottom line is the businesses are ruled by very greedy stockholders who will cheat their mothers for a penny..

Markle wrote:

Jake92 wrote:Imagine the sewing machine operators working for minumum wage making the clothing we wear..  Will the stores sell the things made here for the same price they sell something from Indonesia for when it costs them more to buy them??  The bottom line is the businesses are ruled by very greedy stockholders who will cheat their mothers for a penny..

Obviously you don't have any type of retirement plan.

That's to bad, will Social Security be there for you when you retire?

boards of FL wrote:Pass a law that says all imported goods must be produced by some labor standard that mirrors our domestic standards (workplace safety, minimum wage, etc...).  

Markle wrote:
Exactly what part of the constitution gives us the authority to govern other countries.

Jake92 wrote:That will never be passed by the politicians that make the laws..  It MUST come from the ones buying things demanding them being made in the USA or not buying it..  Will YOU spend an extra $ or 2 for socks, underwear, or t-shirts made in the states??

Markle wrote:
Why do you think Apple decided to build the I-Phone in China? \

Sal wrote:

Markle wrote:

Jake92 wrote:Imagine the sewing machine operators working for minumum wage making the clothing we wear..  Will the stores sell the things made here for the same price they sell something from Indonesia for when it costs them more to buy them??  The bottom line is the businesses are ruled by very greedy stockholders who will cheat their mothers for a penny..

Obviously you don't have any type of retirement plan.

That's to bad, will Social Security be there for you when you retire?

"To" vs "too" ...

... you're incapable of learning from your mistakes ..

... you are a Republican.

boards of FL wrote:

Markle wrote:
Exactly what part of the constitution gives us the authority to govern other countries.

We wouldn't be governing any other countries.  Any country would still be free to do whatever they want.  The only thing that the policy I proposed would affect would be the working conditions of facilities that produce imported products.  Every country and private entity could still do whatever they want; but if they want to import their products into our market, they would need to mirror our work standards, such that there is no artificial labor advantage provided to firms that go to third world countries and prey on slave labor, or countries that employ currency manipulation, or countries that subsidize particular domestic industries, or...etc....   This is common sense.

boards of FL wrote:

Markle wrote:
Why do you think Apple decided to build the I-Phone in China? \

Cheap labor.  (see my solution)

Markle wrote:
What do you think other nations would do about our exports to their countries?

boards of FL wrote:Try and think of a nations wealth as water.  Think of dams as regulation.  As the dams lower, wealth flows out of our country and raises the standard of living elsewhere while simultaneously lowering our domestic standard of living. We have the obvious ability to put a dam in place such that we do not bleed wealth to other countries, though that would be at the expense of our domestic 1%.  Boo fucking hoo.

Markle wrote:
ONCE AGAIN for the very...S-L-O-W.

The money is just part of the problems. The massive regulations heaped on manufacturers make it impossible for them to compete.

Why do you think Apple decided to build the I-Phone in China?

Markle wrote:Was that supposed to make some sort of sense?

boards of FL wrote:

Markle wrote:
What do you think other nations would do about our exports to their countries?

That is entirely their choice.

boards of FL wrote:

Markle wrote:
ONCE AGAIN for the very...S-L-O-W.

The money is just part of the problems. The massive regulations heaped on manufacturers make it impossible for them to compete.

Why do you think Apple decided to build the I-Phone in China?

I guess I can say "ONCE AGAIN for the very...S-L-O-W",  I already answered that question.  Apple produces their product overseas due to a cheap labor advantage.   Or, put another way, an advantage that would not exist under the policy that I proposed.  

I can lead you to water, but I can't make you drink.

boards of FL wrote:Try and think of a nations wealth as water.  Think of dams as regulation.  As the dams lower, wealth flows out of our country and raises the standard of living elsewhere while simultaneously lowering our domestic standard of living. We have the obvious ability to put a dam in place such that we do not bleed wealth to other countries, though that would be at the expense of our domestic 1%.  Boo fucking hoo.

Markle wrote:But you couldn't answer the question.  Not surprising.