re: #175 prononymous

Very good point. Not everything can be described in terms of dollars. Some responsible companies actively seek to mitigate the negative externalities.

IMO, if we are going to consider corporations legal persons then why shouldn’t we start expecting them to act responsibly, as we do for real people?

re: #165 BryanS

Sure. But don’t forget that, among other things, customers within the US market would subsequently have less purchasing power because their jobs were shipped overseas.

For the individual who loses a job, yes. But for everyone else, the result is a less expensive product. We all benefit from outsourced jobs for instance to countries who product inexpensive electronics. Exporting jobs is a big reason that whole classes of products continue to get less expensive and inflation as a whole has gone down.