Levelling the playing field: How to keep more jobs in America

Indeed. Marxism predicts short terms increases in stability by foreign trade correct? as capital finds more labor to exploit, making capitalist profit not fall as quickly.

 

We'll have to get a Marxist in to confirm that, but sounds reasonable to me!

We do have the anarchist analysis that suggests globalisation is a reaction to domestic union success. That also has some similarity with the political economic analysis into multinational corporations (but that's more about underpayment, rather than unemployment)

 

It's not all costs, you know. Worker safety reduces costs elsewhere, assuming that the company has an interest in keeping trained workers working. Organizational efficiency goes up when you're not losing people regularly to workplace injury, and training costs go way down.

The idea that there's some sort of conflict between safety and efficiency is, for the most part, imaginary. It's a false dilemma.

The only effective way to do this is to impose tariffs on products produced unsafely. That's problematic because of our involvement in the WTO and various free trade agreements.

The inefficiencies of production in China and other places in the third world are causing some companies to move back to the US, or to move to the EU. It's not really as cheap as they thought.

Worker ownership would end outsourcing immediately. No worker would vote himself out of a job.

 

What does Marxism predict if trade doesn't occur?

 

We need a Marxist to educate us. However, I'd refer to how trade would be forced through militarism (with the gain then to be had by also enforcing the same class divides on the foreign population)

 

My point exactly. The South American Bond markets were always great investments since the mid 90s. China and a host of other asian countries have caught on to that in the 2000s.

As I have said in the past and on many threads the USA will continue to decline economically but the USA's investment market will still thrive for many years after it's econmic fall.

Best part about overseas capital gains is the tax for it can be smaller depending on the country of the investment. BOVESPA is looking stronger each year. Even the Mexican Market is doing well.

And these are countries who play no part in war with the rest of the world, never has and never will. That is why their future outlook is grand.

 

Now this is some good information I can use. thanks.

 

You want to turn us to the follow of mercantilism. Ain't going to happen, even with influence groups attempting to impose costly protectionism