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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: epicure who wrote (93340)1/12/2005 12:20:36 AM
From: Oeconomicus  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
When you buy "from a boutique artisan", you are buying a bundle that includes service, prestige or other tangible or intangible features not part of the "standard" mass market American or imported product. To suggest that you are doing so to help provide "a living wage" to an American worker is disingenuous at best. If that was truly your reasoning, you would just pay a premium for an American-made bundle of features that is IDENTICAL to the imported bundle. And it is that behavior that is economically irrational and unjustifiable. Even if you could get enough other consumers to go along with your "plan" for saving American jobs and wages, it would not, in the long run, have that effect.

"And if it is irrational to want to support Americans who want to earn a living wage, just how do you expect people in the US to make a living wage?"

I didn't say it was irrational "to want to support Americans who want to earn a living wage." I too want to support such desires and efforts to achieve them. What is irrational (or simply uninformed) is thinking your "buy American" plan would in any way help American workers in the aggregate.

"Or are you ok with wages here coming down to match those in China?"

Why would you expect that to happen?
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