When this is all over I hope this country realizes we should NOT be farming out everything. Making engine parts, sheet metal, toys and cloths is one thing... But when you let a rival country produce your food, drugs & technology you have already lost. If nothing else, this pandemic is making that all too painfully clear...
Why do you hate Capitalism? I'm joking... slightly...
The goal is to make as much money as you can for your shareholders. If you can make more money by building "it" somewhere other than here, you do it, or the board will replace you with someone who will. Your company isn't that greedy? Good luck competing with someone that doesn't mind manufacturing overseas.
But yes, I agree with you. We need to build more stuff here. The question is, how do we do that? Subsidies for companies that stay here (I thought that was a bad word)? If they do build stuff here, chances are they'll be automated and won't employ nearly as many people as we'd hope, though that's an entirely different problem to work on.
The shareholders are us. You and I. We place our investments in stock (real estate also of course) and we demand the highest return we can get.
