gnarlylove
Senior Member
I think you don't understand capitalism then. The reason the rich people are rich is because they earned it. SO what did they do to earn it? Outsourcing. They threatened and in many cases did leave the US to build factories in low wage areas. This allowed them to marginally reduce the price to consumers which was a bonus to the average person but given wages were 5-10 dollars less per hour, they were able to reap the obvious profits from such a move. Soon the overhead was paid for by the cheap labor and the profits never stopped rolling. Hence, outsourcing is a masterful success according to capitalism.
Typically whiny socialist pap.
Meaningless ad hominem. Provides no relevant information to the matter at hand: capitalism
Not all or even most wealthy peeps own factories and not all or even most American firms outsource to foreign countries.
Assuming this is true, it has no relevancy to the fact that American jobs have been outsourced at the behest of the adorable profit motive. And it also aligns with the fact real wages have stagnated since the 70s--companies don't have to pay rising wages anymore. They can simply make more profit elsewhere if the pampered American worker won't accept it, and they in fact do.
Americans get wealthy by selling their services, skills and products competitively in the global market
If you are implying all Americans who become wealthy do so based on merit, you are obviously leaving how a significant portion become rich: inheritance...the opposite of merit. Do you have any data suggesting otherwise? I may be wrong and would love to see what you're trying to say here.
and no amount of socialist whining will make you wealthy.
You finish strong with another hollow personal attack, which is evidently unrelated to how outsourcing has effected people and communities i.e. deficit of good paying jobs in the Rust Belt leading to drug related crime sky rocket and drug overdoses to increase 200 fold over the last two decades.
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