This is the vicious circle of free trade.
A person living over hear wants to earn at least a lower level middl-class income (say around 40K) and livin in a home that they can end up owning over a few decades of mortgauge payments,...
A persom making stuff overseas is willing to work for a few dollars a day and live in a slum because that is all they know and a few dollars a day is WAY better than the opportunities they had before.
Over here, again, the worker goes to the store to buy blue jeans and is faced with a choice of $12 china jeans versus $15 American jeans. He picks the cheaper jeans and the next day finds out his neighbor has just been laid off and the jeans factory down the street is closing because it cannot compete. So the buyer made the perfect microeconomic choice that results in terrible circumstances at the macroeconomic level. What is more, the buyer of the cheapo jeans is now going to foot the bill for his neighbors unemployment checks.
This sure does simplify things doesn't it? Well, the world hit 7 billion people today. Should we go on acting as if the only interest in the world is in the 330ish million that live in the US?
The problem isn't that Brunswick is a bunch of money grubbing SOB's, it's that the competition came along and sold more tables for a cheaper price. In order to compete in that market and to continue to be viable and not have to completely close their doors, they start making tables overseas to compete in that market.
As a result of the production of less expensive tables more and more of the world has been exposed to the game of pool. Yes, outside of the United States it has become available at a fraction of the previous cost. Pool cues, pool tables, balls, all of the accessories, everything associated with the game is now less expensive, meaning the world can participate in the game without having to be the wealthiest class.
Other than selfishly looking at things for the benefit of Americans and Americans only, how can it possibly be bad that more products are produced at a lower cost? How can it be bad that the country with the highest population has industrialized and is now producing!?!?
Oh yeah, we lose "jobs" over here. We should hinder the worlds growth, we should block production and we shouldn't worry that the world goes hungry while we protect "jobs" here?
Buy Brunswick because the table is quality made and an American company stands behind it. I wouldn't fret about buying the table from China, people are people, people made it, people benefited from your desire to have the table.
