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We both want them and don’t want them to live like pigs.

It’s a quandary.

For example, China produces the bulk of the rare earths that go into our electronics. We could do that here…rare earths actually aren’t that rare…but the process to mine and refine rare earths creates hugely toxic side products and waste that if we were to do it here would add a ton to the cost base for electronic devices.

There’s no easy solution to handling the toxic side products.

So we let China do it and let them deal with the pollution problem that entails.

Do you want to bring that production back here?

Then you had better be willing to accept certain increased costs…and better have a solution in place to the fact that wages will have to go up to make it work because it does no good to bring production back here at higher cost when wages will lag those increased costs…and thus no one can afford to buy the products we are now making here.

And none of this is going to happen via the “invisible hand of the market”, something in the purist conservative/libertarian philosophy is going to have to become a little “less pure”. Labeling any departure from purity as “socialism” btw…doesn’t help the things you want to happen…happen.