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>People who are against outsourcing of jobs because it hurts workers have what appears to me to be a small view of the set of humanity that matters.

Then get rid of nation states, allow complete freedom of movement, eliminate all the world's militaries, and use the money saved to improve living and working conditions for everyone on the planet.

>There is no force more powerful for improving the quality of life and well-being of _billions_ of people than economic development

And no force more likely to destroy quality of life and well-being of everyone than predatory nationalist capitalism.

You can't have this one both ways.

Oh - and the US economy is already incredibly uncompetitive, with vast surplus capacity. Why is moving that capacity to China and India better than using the full economic capacities of both China, India, and the US?



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