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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
this has been debated here before, but the reason the UAW factories were able to provide high wages for work that could be done in other countries for a fraction of the price, is that US union members in other industries would never buy an Asian made car. And in turn UAW workers would never buy a Japanese TV. As long as those constructs held all was good. then they didn't hold anymore. Jobs are farmed out to low wage areas out of greed, at least not in the way you mean. jobs are farmed out because americans will no longer pay for americans to be paid.
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Auto jobs disappeared because foreign firms simply made better cars.
The unions and the automakers got lazy and built shit cars. People decided to buy foreign.
I don't recall my family buying a Volvo in the 80s because the American alternative was too expensive. They bought it because it was safer and ran longer.
I can buy cheap American cars all day long. I buy foreign because they last longer. I pay a premium for that. If American cars ran nearly as long as foreign cars, I'd pay that premium to American workers. But they do not, even now.
