Why should the US Government facilitate the taking of an American citizen's job? Thats not why we pay our taxes.
If a company wants to offshore jobs out the country, they shouldn't be helped by our own government to do it.
If a company wants to offshore jobs out the country, they shouldn't be helped by our own government to do it.
Consider that as a result of 70 people at Toys 'R' Us losing their jobs, toys became marginally cheaper for hundreds of millions of Americans.
Edit: not to mention the majority owners of Toys 'R' Us realizing the part of the savings that aren't passed on to consumers are undoubtedly American investors and pension plans.
I think if you hold such a radical agenda, you should be up front about it, rather than arguing by analogy to topics people want to distance themselves from. You're advocating the dissolution of nation-states in the conventional sense. This is a fine thing to advocate for, but one certainly isn't a racist for not supporting this particular radical agenda that you happen to have.
Are you also a communist, or at the very least, do you believe that inheritance should be abolished? After all, inheritance is a literal lottery of birth in the same way race is.
And finally, as someone who is posting on the Internet, you have either won the lottery of birth in a direct way, or been blessed with enough intelligence to overcome suboptimal birth conditions and thus have won the lottery of birth in a more indirect way. What are you doing to address the harm your privileged position does to the world? Do you live a life of poverty and give all your money to Waatsi?
Nationalism is stupid. What's so radical about feeling I have more in common with an Indian engineering student than a white American factory worker?
I'm not a saint and I'm not simply going to give all of my money away, whether I deserve it or not. However, I'm not going to whine about foreigners stealing my jerbs either. If it's so easy for someone half the world away to steal my job I didn't deserve it in the first place.
When outsourcing was a big hot-button topic back around THE TURN OF THE CENTURY (just realized we can say this now and get away with it, seems weird) there was a lot of talk about how the low-value "coder" jobs would go overseas while we here in the US would just do high level design and software architecture to ship to these people to implement....
That's great for one generation, but how do people become great designers and architects without being a working "coder" for a while? Doesn't happen, in my experience (or, rather happens so infrequently the exceptions aren't worth considering).
By removing today's low-end industry jobs we risk eliminating the path of real-world experience that makes people qualified for the higher-end work, thereby making us (as a country/culture/whatever) unqualified to do the high-end stuff in the not-too-distant future.
A lot of companies are very bad at thinking about that kind of long-term progression. My dad works in a power plant, where essentially he and the millwright are the only two who understand how all of the systems in the plant work, since they are the only members of the maintenance staff that have been there long enough to have repaired all of the equipment (longer than the current management...) Both of them are looking to retire in the next couple years, and made that known some time ago. Rather than hire full-time staff to train and learn the plant in preparation for that handoff, the company contracts out (more expensive) temporary workers...
Destroying the middle class to improve margins does not grow the real economy. You grow the real economy by investing in technology and an educated workforce that can translate their skill set to providing real goods and services.
Majority owners, investors and pension plan managers need to invest their money in companies that have real customers with real incomes that can afford to buy their goods and services.
Similarly, if I don't threaten people with violence for watching "Real Housewives of New Jersey", that doesn't mean I'm facilitating people watching it.
Don't forget that a "job" is not a good thing. It's a bad thing. People don't like working, they mostly want money, at least for menial jobs. The whole idea of silicon valley is to take people's menial jobs. That's what it's there for! Should the government hinder technology companies because they're threatening to replace people's jobs with computers? Of course not! In the case of both technology and cheaper foreign workers, the overall result is positive to the US economy.
If you think Americans are more deserving than other people, then, well that's just the nationalism and racism that the GP described. You can pretend it's not racism, but it's effectively the same thing - treating people worse because of who their parents are.