Rudy Canoza
2025-02-12 04:57:52 UTC
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Permalinkbetter 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.