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<blockquote data-quote="RobGMN" data-source="post: 8884655" data-attributes="member: 683408">Because we want to get paid more to make a product but pay less to buy it.No one wants to open business to break even or operate at a loss. And you can&#039;t make profit if you have to pay out what you take in.Hell, our farmers can&#039;t even get by without subsidies and welfare, and they grow something we can&#039;t live without. So we turn to offshore mfg to allow for profit.It&#039;s on the backs of other countries, when it used to be on the backs of Americans.Remember the fur trade from history books?The laborers (indigenous people, more often than not) had to pay the &quot;boss&quot; for their food, clothing, basic needs. And they needed that stuff before the first portage was ever made, so they were immediately indebted to the boss.And it just so happened that their needs cost as much as their pay, or even more. They were the &quot;offshore cheap labor&quot;.Fast forward to now. Bezos is a bazillionaire from selling imported goods, who pays min wage wherever he can.You don&#039;t get wealthy by breaking even.If we could do it better, don&#039;t you think we would have done that instead of offshoring many decades ago?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RobGMN, post: 8884655, member: 683408"] Because we want to get paid more to make a product but pay less to buy it. No one wants to open business to break even or operate at a loss. And you can't make profit if you have to pay out what you take in. Hell, our farmers can't even get by without subsidies and welfare, and they grow something we can't live without. So we turn to offshore mfg to allow for profit. It's on the backs of other countries, when it used to be on the backs of Americans. Remember the fur trade from history books? The laborers (indigenous people, more often than not) had to pay the "boss" for their food, clothing, basic needs. And they needed that stuff before the first portage was ever made, so they were immediately indebted to the boss. And it just so happened that their needs cost as much as their pay, or even more. They were the "offshore cheap labor". Fast forward to now. Bezos is a bazillionaire from selling imported goods, who pays min wage wherever he can. You don't get wealthy by breaking even. If we could do it better, don't you think we would have done that instead of offshoring many decades ago? [/QUOTE]

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