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All on Tue Feb 11 20:57:52 2025
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No one "shipped jobs overseas." What happens is that foreign manufacturers get better and better at producing goods that Americans will buy, and because their costs are lower, production shifts to foreign firms.
In the 1960s, Japanese cars imported into the USA were seen as inferior — they
were small, flimsy, and somewhat unreliable. Some people who couldn't afford huge gas-guzzling American land yachts, which were *equally* unreliable, bought the Japanese cars. Over time, Japanese cars became sturdy and reliable, and their market share rose. American car manufacturing jobs declined. Those jobs were not "shipped overseas" to Japan. The Japanese car companies simply out-competed the American manufacturers, and the American firms' market shares declined...and they *shrank*, which means shedding employees. *That's just how it goes*.
No jobs are ever "shipped overseas." What happens is that foreign firms who sell
us stuff grow, while domestic firms who used to make the same stuff shrink, and thus domestic employment in the manufacture of that stuff falls, while foreign employment in the manufacture of the same stuff grows. But no jobs are "shipped"
overseas. That's a nonsense metaphor. Nonsense = bullshit = stupid.
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