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Too much winning!
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That's not what they think. They think that employees in the US would get good wages and the cost of goods wouldn't change. They don't understand the simple economics behind moving a factory to a country with a low manufacturing overhead.
They would be the first to complain that Nike wages are too low and/or Nike trainers now cost too much. Nike would be accused of price gouging even when they would probably struggle a lot more to be profitable.
Is a have your cake and eat it situation. Oh and it's also worth noting that I expect almost all of the people who complain about manufacturing being overseas and not in the USA would not consider the jobs they want to bring home.
"There are plenty of other Americans who would do them, but i am destined for greater things than that"
You’re both right.
They want magic to happen. Jobs to magically appear in the US, prices to remain magically unchanged, wages to be American factory wages, and for all of this to happen now.
They completely disregard they’ve already drilled holes in the bottom of their fantasy boat with trump’s tariffs. All the materials and machinery needed to either build and establish American manufacturing, or grow American raw materials extraction, processing, refining, forging, and basic tech production would take a decade to spool up even with importing of outsourced resources; resources which trump has conveniently slapped tariffs all over making it cost prohibitive to even start building American self-sufficiency. But trump waved his magic wand, so the True Beleivers™️ are happy and trump can sling blame at China or liberals, or whoever else when his shittly lack of actual planning doesn’t fix everything.
Right, magas have 0 empathy so that's most of it. They don't think their children would be the ones making shoes in a sweatshop. Not saying it's right for it to happen in other countries either (i don't buy nike, but yes I have tech that was probbaly made by foxconn and we know how nice they are to employees). If nike moved to the US their shoes would be $300 , and the workers would make at most $13, which is not even close to enough to live on now.