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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Only way to bring manufacturing back to the USA is to impose trade regulations on countries that have poor workplace standards and wages.
As long as it's perfectly legal to shut in slave workers in decrepit conditions that eventually burn down and collapse on top of them, companies forced to provide decent working conditions won't be able to compete.
Garment Factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh:
Garment Factory in Los Angeles, USA:
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That's all well and good, but you skipped the last line of the next part of that post
"Or if you're willing to spend 5-10X the amount for things."
That is part of the problem. If you increase tariffs, that would work. Unfortunately TV's, clothes and all the other things that are manufactured elsewhere are going to become really expensive. Unless the wages mirror the new prices, then the only result will be even higher poverty.