My only point was that the companies moved the production offshore *first* (lower wages), without consulting the customers about whether the customers would prefer price or quality.
So once I was convinced of that, the question became, "OK, why would they suddenly rock the boat when everything was going well?"
And the answer I came up with was, they wanted new markets since the West was a mature market.
I agree offshoring sucks: I was most emphatically NOT trying to defend it -- as you might guess by reading the article which started this thread.
Cheers!
None inferred or intended. We agree on this. I'm just looking at it from the angle of what we're doing to enable it, and what we can do to stop it.
It should be clear we can't count on either party to stop this. Maybe they shouldn't, as opening up other markets to our goods is a good thing. But if we want to keep our jobs, then we're the ones who need to buy stuff made here.