I make that point every time the Trumpers in my family rail on about the small number of manufacturing jobs we might see come back due to tariffs. Outsourced jobs are in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, and none of them require massive infrastructure re-shoring to get off the ground.
If a company can’t profit without offshoring jobs, they don’t need to exist. There are plenty of companies ready to fill that gap with people that live and work onshore, and plenty of people with entrepreneurial spirit ready to start new companies when they aren’t competing with labor making 10% of what someone here would make to do the same job.
I make that point every time the Trumpers in my family rail on about the small number of manufacturing jobs we might see come back due to tariffs. Outsourced jobs are in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, and none of them require massive infrastructure re-shoring to get off the ground.
If a company can’t profit without offshoring jobs, they don’t need to exist. There are plenty of companies ready to fill that gap with people that live and work onshore, and plenty of people with entrepreneurial spirit ready to start new companies when they aren’t competing with labor making 10% of what someone here would make to do the same job.