Or the stockholder in an automobile manufacturing plant. The factory produces cars with the sweat of a few hundred workers. Management calculates the cost of hiring these people, adds a nice profit for a dividend, a bit more for a sinking fund, some more to modernize the plant, plus a few cents toward his golden parachute, and prices the product so as to leave a little slack. Not a comparable situation. Within the country we have minimum wage laws, safety and health regulations, plus the fact that the underpaid coal miner in West Virginia is free to move to Texas where the pay is better.
Free trade is generally better for both partners.
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