[oytis]

What's really weird in Western society is that we have to outsource some useful jobs (like actually making things) to other countries and reluctantly keep others (like caring for the sick or cooking food) in a low paid limbo so that educated people can engage in useless and still not at all rewarding or at least fun activities.

[the_lonely_road]

That’s not weird and we don’t “have” to outsource making things. Labor is very expensive in the land of the dollar printing machine and shades of cheap leading all the way to “fractional” cost in the far away lands forced to collect their dollars.

As such anything that can be done faraway will be. My shirt can be made in Taiwan or Arkansas and it’s imperceptible to me. When so need to get an MRI flying to Taiwan is out of the question and a day trip to Arkansas is impractical. I need a doctor down the street I can see with a half day off work.