It all depends upon the rules that are put in place. If jobs are lost because of lax child labour and environmental laws elsewhere, then it is bad. If jobs are lost because somewhere else is willing to do it better than you for the same money, or the same as you for less money, then it is good. And even that is way too simple an argument since it doesn't include the hundreds of other considerations that need to be thought out.
The biggest problem I see in these debates is each side always tries to reduce the topic down to simple platitudes, but the issues are too complex to be put on protest sign.
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