Hey, freetraders, explain to me again how outsourcing my spinning

[Skidmore]

and selling my spinning wheel to someone else helps me provide warm clothing for my family? In the short term, it may free some of my time and I may be able to convince the entity to which I've outsourced my industry to give me a cheaper product. What happens if that entity decides it has all the spinning wheels in the world and can command any price it wants? Or if there is a disruption in the trade between me and that entity brought on by say, a crazy president who thinks he's a king starting a war that affects trade everywhere? I've lost my technology and maybe don't have the permission of stupid government to use it because it might affect some weird little law someone passed somewhere to facilitate trade in his neck of the woods. How does this really protect my family? I've lost my ability to be self-sufficient in times of disaster. I've sold my cow for a handful of beans that are just beans, not magical beans. I only get beans from that plant, not gold.

[Quakerfriend]

1. Oh, but the beans are GE variety and cannot be used to grow

beans next years. Must buy more GE beans from big brother.

[Lost4words]

2. At the start of WWII we went from washing machines and cars to

planes and tanks in literally days because we had the assembly lines and a trained workforce in place.

When China attacks are we going to contract our planes to them?

Long term security has been sold out to short term profit for the few.

[Skidmore]

4. Amen...

[TallahasseeGrannie]

3. Good points, all

which is why I wouldn't see the spinning wheel, even if I no longer spin. And I wouldn't lose the knowledge of how to do it.

Which is why I raise chickens and plant a garden.

[Skidmore]

5. But that knowledge of how to do it may be necessary at some

time in the future. Why sell out the whole industry so that it is in danger of becoming lost.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

6. Oh, I agree with you

I think outsourcing in unpatriotic and spookily global.

[Skidmore]

7. Boo!! :)