re: #492 jvic

I’ve been thinking about the whole free-trade thing lately, and if my long time stance that it is fundamentally a good thing ought to be changed.

The tentative conclusion I’ve come to is that the problem our country is facing, at least one of them, isn’t that companies are so willing to move production overseas, but that America as a whole undervalues our labor. We really do. We put manual labors down at the bottom of the proverbial totem pole. Americans as a whole don’t suffer from over-valuing their hourly labor rates, but by undervaluing the importance of labor to our lives.

This might seem counter intuitive at first, but think about it: if we collectively enforced the idea that “cheaper” is not better, how would our society be different?