[I]n a relentlessly globalizing world, most jobs that moved to Mexico since NAFTA would likely have shifted to some lower-wage country. "We are a global economy whether we like it or not," says Los Angeles lawyer Mickey Kantor, who served Clinton as U.S. trade representative when Congress approved NAFTA. "Businesses, capital, and jobs are going to move back and forth."
Bullshit. Career grifters like Mickey Kantor aside, it's like this: Jobs and capital don't move around from country to country because they have some mystic powers of their own, they move around because policymakers incentivize capital flight and outsourcing. Globalization wasn't/isn't some inevitable act of God, it's an outgrowth of policy that rewards busting unions, driving wages downward, evading taxes and offshoring assets. If we agree that these are undesirable things, we can rewrite policy to put a stop to the worst abuses of the market, but either way, economies don't change and evolve like living organisms because they're manmade constructs. This isn't at all difficult to figure out.
---Baron V
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