Off-shoring is not a black and white issue. It's neither categorically wrong, nor categorically acceptable. In its purest form, off-shoring is simply the international division of labor, and although I prefer to think of things not in terms of nations and borders, the concept of divided labor really is morally neutral:
If parking were nominally "free", it would be even more difficult to find a parking spot. Right now, parking is inexpensive, at fifty cents per hour during normal business hours and it's still very difficult to find a parking spot. This is the number 2 reason why I don't visit Royal Oak. The number 1 reason is a preponderance of douchebags.
In a free market, transnational oil companies (among others) that are destroying Nigeria, the Gulf Coast, parts of South America, and contributing to endless war in the middle east would’ve probably long ago been supplanted by something better, cleaner, safer and more efficient. Jim Mulva, ConocoPhillips’ chief executive, says that the unlimited liability some are proposing in Congress to punish operators for further spills in the Gulf of Mexico is inappropriate… He said to...
