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That's how capitalism works, eventually everything gets moved where it's more efficient.

Obviously, time and time again has proven that outsourcing is not always more efficient.

By that definition companies should just employ children because they are cheap.

They did. So we installed a guardrail to prohibit it.

Now that’s called “burdensome regulation”, and we’re tearing all those guardrails down at an alarming pace.

Which is what happens indeed in various parts of the world sadly.

So then that's not how capitalism works, is it?

It's not math, it's pressure down the chain of command - you had to be outsourcing or at least trying to. Same as now - you have to be trying to "AI" and report improvements as this is what everyone wants to hear.

It is, if you add the word "perceived" to the original post.

Why wouldn't it?

American capitalism doesn’t worry about long timescales, beyond a year or two.

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