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Your suggestion would largely diminish globalization. How exactly are you going to make that happen?
You don't have jurisdiction over other countries and their laws. You would be importing from only a handful of countries, most of which don't make anything either. Not to mention, that countries are in a competition, so if one country does what you say, everyone else will be happier as they have one fewer competitor. Globalization would go on as it is. Countries benchmark their policies against others.
Americans still don't get globalization. We think that democracy can change globalization, or that we can at least change our system. In reality, globalization is beyond the reach of any one democracy. Changing one's rules doesn't change the game. Then we say all countries should be like that! Yeah, right, count on it.
Additionally, not everyone thinks it's an "unfair advantage." If the Chinese can get opportunities because it's low cost, and you raise artificial rules, then you are diminishing their advantages. Yes, they get paid less, but things cost less in most of China. They are not necessarily living much worse than you are. In fact, their lower salary goes further, and they may afford homes better than yours.
The liberal hypocrisy is that liberals welcome undocumented immigrants to work the jobs, even though these immigrants are making extremely little yet living in the U.S. with its price tag. These immigrants don't make more than the Chinese "slavery" workers, yet the Chinese "slavery" workers face cheaper prices in China and they don't have to hide. Liberals are fine with undocumented immigrants and they avoid discussion of the slavery of these poor immigrants. These immigrants are the real slaves of the 21st century, and they are right here in the U.S. The NPR thinks we "need" these jobs. You see the hypocrisy?
There are costs beyond those captured in the price of things purchased. Currently China, India, and other rapidly-growing countries have largely ignored those costs. Having people break apart batteries with hammers and recover electronic components by melting them over open burners while breathing in toxic gases is not a sustainable advantage nor should it be encouraged through tacit acceptance.
culture of entitlement= baby boomers started, lived, and embraced it, which was later passed on to their kids who ironically ended up with less overall opportunity because of less buying power in the money they spend, and less instance of entitlement 'granted to them' that their parents were 'granted'....
I just couldn't stop from pitching some in.
Entitlement is very dangerous. People with false sense of it, cross street like as if they own it and the traffic should spin around them.
They drive like as if they own the road, and traffic has to work ITS ways around them.
They live like as if they own the world, and the neighborhood has to build ITS life around them.
They walk down any walkway, like as if they own it, and others should work THEIR ways around them.
Mass of them believes, that their country should tell the rest of the world to build THE WORLD"S life around them, to their pleasure.
This country is richer than ever before. We can certainly afford all the same things from the post war period. We just choose to structure our economy differently. Lots of people are looking hard for jobs that don't exist and end up on assistance because they don't want to starve. That's not entitlement. That's survival. Entitlemwnt is an heir complaining about taxes on money he didn't earn.
The culture of entitlement is a direct result of the rise of narcissism as a human trait.
Entitlement can be found at both ends of the spectrum:
Forms of welfare at one end - and then corporate subsidies & bailouts on the other. And a lot in between.
As human beings have become more narcissistic, the culture of entitlement has grown.
Human beings are inherently selfish and narcissistic. Those that are not, are extremely rare.
Unless the root of the problem is addressed (narcissism), then the culture of entitlement will continue to grow.
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