It can maximize your personal profit to do so, particularly if you can set up in countries where human rights are virtually non-existent and pay slave-level (or below) wages. This makes financial sense to the profiteers of the decision and the stakeholders, but at a significant moral cost and causes significant damage on the homefront.
When jobs are in your community/country, you benefit in several ways:
- Employment rates remain high
- you aren't making moral compromises
- if it is illegal/immoral to pay workers pennies per hour in your home community, why is it morally acceptable to do so elsewhere??
- paying somebody less to do the same work is not "increased efficiency" in any real sense, it is just taking advantage of workers in areas where they don't have adequate protections.
- Efficiency" in the economic sense is a misused term - "efficiency" historically meant more intelligent production strategies, not merely crashing take-home pay of workers.
- Taxes get paid
- having people un- or under-employed means they are paying less taxes, which means lower services, poorer services for all (including those with increased personal profits from the exportation of jobs)
- The economy works better
- more customers
- more freely spending customers
- less deficit coverage in governments - more growth
Let's promote patriotism, not just jingoistically bringing it into conversations and communication campaigns during elections. Live the word - BE patriotic - keep jobs in home territory - keep your neighbours employed.
Lets be clear - taking high-paying jobs from North America and paying low-wage workers to do the work is very costly to North American society and runs into significant moral issues.
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