If you want more jobs get the governments off the backs of industry. None of their programs work but the administrators are off the streets.
And no, I did not jump to conclusions.
The ideal of free trade would led to maximum employment here as well as in the rest of the world. But we don’t have, and never had, free trade.
The problem is government meddling not free trade. It is a goal.
We’ve tried your idea for the last 30 years with disastrous results. We’ve let corporations allocate resources for “optimal” benefits - their benefit.
The result has been millions of good paying jobs relocating to China and Mexico. That’s why we are in a pickle right now regarding trade.
DJT is trying to fix the problem of “optimal allocation” by corporations.