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What's noteworthy is that an American company didn't immediately fire its employees to make way for the cheapest experts it could find for the new roles. Instead, they retrained their existing people for the new roles.

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It's a small thing but it's these little victories that give me a much needed ethics boner.

doubt it's some altruistics thing, likely retraining existing box packers were cheaper than hiring tech grads

Seems like you and Adam Smith put different weights on the value of altruism.

> It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

No one implied they were doing this altruistically. It's noteworthy simply because they bucked the conventional wisdom (offshore everything, US manufacturing cannot compete etc etc) and succeeded financially.

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