What Is The Leftist Perspective On Exporting Jobs?

A listener calls in to ask Sam what the leftist perspective is on outsourcing jobs from the US.

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Hi, is this me? Yes, this is you. who's this hi this is Michelle in Brooklyn. Michelle in Brooklyn. What's on your mind, Michelle? Yeah so first of all as a communist coming from a family of Libertarians I just want to say I love hearing you take these idiots down. I wanted to talk today. I wanted to ask you your opinion as a leftist about how you feel about exporting labor overseas? How I feel about exporting labor. Yeah like companies and large corporations using cheap labor in other countries like what is a leftist perspective. Oh, accident not exporting labor but exporting jobs. Outsourcing jobs. yeah yeah yeah. it's it it it's a dilemma a little bit. I mean in terms of like you know one it's helpful on some level to increase the living standards of people living overseas. But I am not quite convinced that it's always necessarily with the best protections. Right. I think there are some that I would be okay with I guess. But others that I think you know we need to be able to provide jobs in this country. You know. I don't. I don't know if I have a better answer than that frankly. It sort of depends on the country. It depends on the industry. I think we should allow you now labor to have the same sort of ability to move as we allow Capital to. But I also think that we should be doing more for our people in this country outside of jobs to make it not so Cutthroat of an issue. I see. So from your perspective just like providing more services for people so that they're for example Healthcare isn't dependent. Exactly. If we did it come in you know we did they decommodify things like health care. We decommodify things like at least partially you know college and Universal Pre-K and daycare. If we decommodify you know to some extent housing the idea of Outsourcing jobs becomes less and less critical frankly. Right. and so do you feel like even if all those things are in place maybe regulations on you know how cheap labor can be if a company outsources it. I mean the biggest problem I can just give you an example. As you know when we did NAFTA the idea was supposed that we were going to raise the living standards in Mexico. Except we were told that well that part of NAFTA is going to come later. The worker protections and the Environmental Protections were going to be like the part you know the fix of NAFTA. that stuff never came. And so you ended up really screwing up Mexico. Because what really happened in that situation was like you know our corn cost a fraction of what their corn cost to produce. It destroyed you know a lot of like sort of what was happening in rural Mexico in terms of farms in agriculture. And it didn't have the impact that was sold to us in terms of helping the Mexican worker essentially.