Reply #11: Doesn't matter [View All]

[Zero Gravitas]

They will still get the profits even if the goods are manufactured and consumed outside the US. Thats the point they export the jobs to the other countries to reduce their costs and increase profits. These corporations exist so a small number of people can live in luxury not to provide a living to the American middle class. They don't even care if the American market shrinks as the middle class is undermined so long as their net profit goes up because of the lower costs and larger global market.

Follow this trend to its logical conclusion and you get 95% with low wage jobs buying cheap crap at Wal Mart, the top 0.5% living in luxury, and a small number in the middle providing specialist services to the wealthy.