Not my downdoot, though I’m tempted.
There needs to be some sort of mechanic to incentivize us to keep our resources - material and people - internal to the country.
Like any household or business, the more you can keep in-house, the better, and the more you put things outside your household or business, the more dependent you are, the more it costs you, and eventually, you turn to what we are now - not a country or a nation, a people with a shared identity and common interests, just a damned economic zone.
If we truly need to export wealth and bypass our own people to get some skill set here, it needs to be made more expensive to ensure it’s truly necessary.
You may not work in a field that competes with the whole world, but a lot of Americans do, and that number is going up. It would be nice if it could go down by some degree, if only because a lot of the rest of the world uses slave labor, and a lot of them are loyal to their own people, whether we are loyal to ours or not.
…And if you aren’t loyal to Americans, why should they be loyal to you? There’s no loyalty now and that’s been caused by a lot of people. Societal trust has a lot of repairing to be done.
Not my downdoot, though I’m tempted.
There needs to be some sort of mechanic to incentivize us to keep our resources - material and people - internal to the country.
Like any household or business, the more you can keep in-house, the better, and the more you put things outside your household or business, the more dependent you are, the more it costs you, and eventually, you turn to what we are now - not a country or a nation, a people with a shared identity and common interests, just a damned economic zone.
If we truly need to export wealth and bypass our own people to get some skill set here, it needs to be made more expensive to ensure it’s truly necessary.
You may not work in a field that competes with the whole world, but a lot of Americans do, and that number is going up. It would be nice if it could go down by some degree, if only because a lot of the rest of the world uses slave labor, and a lot of them are loyal to their own people, whether we are loyal to ours or not.
…And if you aren’t loyal to Americans, why should they be loyal to you?