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Re:43% of South African youths are not in employment, educat... by lotsofpulp on Friday June 04, 2021 @11:44AM (#27394774)
> But instead of reversing sweetheart legislation that makes it easy to ship jobs overseas and bring in cheap labor at home,

No or low taxes on imports is sweetheart legislation? There is no way US labor prices (some of the highest in the world) were ever going to compete with the labor prices in developing countries where families live in a single room. Not to mention the lack of labor and environmental standards.

I am not aware of any US import taxes that were removed to allow this labor price arbitrage to occur. It was simply a fact of international shipping efficiencies making trade and the labor price arbitrage much easier.

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Re:43% of South African youths are not in employment, educat... by mberning on Friday June 04, 2021 @12:08PM (#27395064)
There is a black market for labor.
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Re:43% of South African youths are not in employment, educat... by lotsofpulp on Friday June 04, 2021 @12:13PM (#27395123)
Why is that relevant here? The scale of manufacturing causing jobs to be outsourced surely dwarfs it.
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