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Originally Posted by ernie
I know a poster mentioned it but I feel it's important to repeat it. Not every good businessman does something to maximize profits. Quite the opposite. As pointed out by that poster there are businesses that make the decision to buy american and produce in the US. It's not because it is the cheapest way to do things or the only way to do things. It's because they feel it is the right thing to do. And that is the problem. Trump lives his life purely to maximize profits NOT because it is the "right" thing to do. And unlike Trump a country is NOT a business and can not be run as such.
And that ignores the whole he doesn't actually have properly presented policy on anything. At least nothing that stays consistent. His argument is simply "trust me". Well as much as it is political suicide it needs to be said at some point that the workforce is becoming more and more educated and the employment market and what the US is known for has to change with it. There will always be a place for factories but it can't be a purely blue collar workforce anymore because it's not.
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Ugh...When did buy American become the ultimate altruistic thing to do? What about doing what is right for all humans, and not just Americans?
To what I think is the original point of your post, I think there have been a lot of companies that have done well by doing right by their employees and using that as a marketing tool, and it has all resulted in higher profits. The point is that they ended up with a profitable company by doing the right thing. But profits always will matter to a busines. That is just the way anything remotely based on capitalism will work.
Building and producing goods in the US is not the road to the promised land. That ship has sailed and most Americans are better off not working in factories any more. How the hell did this become the thing we are striving for?