Running Out of Labor to Exploit

AMERICAN MANUFACTURING IS RETURNING to America! Jobs are coming back home! At least, a little bit. Maybe nothing to get all that excited about, but its a start. The cost of labor is increasing in places like China and Mexico. American corporations are helping, by increasing the demand for labor abroad. Thus, the cost of labor in countries less prosperous than the United States is catching up with the low cost of labor in the U.S.. Ironic, since the one and only reason American corporations do their manufacturing in other countires is to exploit their low cost of labor. Corporations are not compassionate organizations, they are profit seeking organizations. Its getting harder to exploit foreign labor, and easier to exploit labor in America, whose living standard is in decline, and millions of poor people try to survive, after the fashion of a third world country. There is really a very thin line between the United States of America, and a so called "third world country" demographically. A few extremely wealthy corporations at the very top, and millions of low wage workers, struggling to survive. Millions of impoverished Americans, willing and eager to take low wage manufacturing jobs, until they can get organized later, or find something better. International free trade, agreements NAFTA and GATT, were and are intended only for the purpose of allowing the world's largest corporations free reign in shopping for the cheapest labor the world has to offer. That may be getting more difficult to do, and this is good new for workers. The working masses of the world will benefit only when there is so much manufacturing occuring the world over that the global cost of labor rises, through demand, to a high enough level to give the world's working masses enough income to live on. At least half the world's workers currently do not get paid enough to live. At least half of all American workers are not paid a living wage.How do they live? With many people crowded into very small living spaces, with no luxuries and barely enough to eat, that's how. Karl Marx may have been wrong about many things, but he was quite right about one; the workers of the world will never be treated as equal partners in industry until they insist on it, vehemently and vociferously.