A white collar worker sitting in front of a computer terminal in New York will be doing precisely the same job as a white collar worker in Bangalore. The guy in Bangalore has the same training and software and has as much God-given smarts as the guy in New York. So unless the guy in New York is a genius there is no way he will be ten times more productive than the guy in Bangalore. So to prevent himself from falling to a Bangalore paycheck, the guy in New York will use the political process to protect himself. Yell "socialist" or "commie" all you like. It won't matter. The guy in New York cares more about his future and that of his family than he does about the purity of the free market and he will not allow them to become casualties to comparative advantage. Looking after their young is what mammals do.
And tort reform isn't the issue. Its the wage differential. That is what makes outsourcing so attractive.
Correct: the tasks are the same. But it is incorrect to say that he will be doing it in the same way. The productivity of American labor is much higher, including white color labor. You underestimate the cultural differences that, in particular, make Americans better problem-solvers than anyone else, including the Europeans. This is particularly evident in tasks that are ill-structured and novel. Most of the innovation in the last 50 years has come from this continent.
Yell "socialist" or "commie" all you like. I don't yell: I merely name things by their proper names.
It it the attitude such as yours against the use of these terms that permitted socialists to hijack the word "liberalism."
The guy in New York cares more about his future and that of his family than he does about the purity of the free market and he will not allow them to become casualties to comparative advantage. He simply has no choice.
And tort reform isn't the issue. Its the wage differential. The main component of that differential is the cost of benefits: it is that cost that has skyrocketed, not the paycheck.