re: #297 Expand Your Ground

If we are competing with other nations based on labor costs, then that can be a good thing: it motivates us to be more efficient.

But if we are letting them compete based on laxer safety or environmental regulations, then we are doing nobody a favor: neither the industries we are undercutting or the residents of foreign countries whose health is suffering.

And those environments don’t just stay there in their country. We all live in this ‘closed’ system called Earth. As someone said about smoking sections in restaurants, “It’s like having a peeing section in a pool”. We all are affected by everything that happens in some way or another. Like our US industries SO2 polluting the clouds so acid rain falls on Canada (to note, Canada also contributes but we produce at least 6 timers more SO2 pollution than they).