Not all outsourcing is about ‘stuff’.

Of course it is if you define “stuff” to mean anything that can be traded for. It’s a catch-all for “goods and services” intended to save keystrokes. Unsuccessfully, apparently.

Tell my son and the other 60–100 employees who have already been let go and those yet to be let go that the road to protectionism should be allowed to run its course.

Did you read the part about how I support political action to soften that blow? I support unemployment compensation, retraining subsidies, universal basic income, and any other workable way to make capitalism less painful for the victims of efficiency. But keeping people employed just because they need the work is welfare by another name. As is protectionism.

I don’t believe the “road to protectionism” should be allowed to run its course. I oppose protectionism for the purpose of protecting entrepreneurs and their employees. The road to efficiency must be allowed to run its course. We just have to figure out how to distribute the benefits of that efficiency gain more equitably, and we have not done that.