[yummyfajitas]

Why should we encourage a corporation not to ship jobs overseas? Why do you intrinsically want to favor Priscilla over Poonam? Is a brown girl who speaks Marathi somehow less worthy of a job than a white girl who speaks English?

Personally I don't think so. But perhaps that's because to me, Poonam is a real girl, very short, who makes frowny faces in google chat and real life when I tease her. Maybe I'd think differently if Poonam was a faceless foreign devil.

(Note: The girl is real, the name is not.)

Also, you are simply wrong that a corporation's value is creating jobs. It isn't. A corporation's worth is the consumer surplus their products create. If my company helps a woman find a dress she values at $100 and she pays $80 for it, she gains a consumer surplus of $20. How much of that $20 we are responsible for is dependent on what her NBA would have been.

[ck2]

What if that woman is unable to get a job because all the jobs are shipped overseas and cannot buy a new dress at all?

What is that corporation's worth to society that it is not generating any domestic income and only extracting dollars from a society?

[yummyfajitas]

What if that woman is unable to get a job because all the jobs are shipped overseas and cannot buy a new dress at all?

Then she will lower the cost of her labor until her prices become competitive, and people will then choose to hire her.

What is that corporation's worth to society that it is not generating any domestic income and only extracting dollars from a society?

Corporate value to society = consumer surplus generated - cost of printing green pieces of paper

(This assumes the corporation takes delivery of green pieces of paper rather than electrons, in which case it's value is even higher.)

Also, you still dodged the question of why your white girl deserves this job more than my brown girl. Is my girl simply less of a human being than your girl?

[pmiller2]

Your "white girl vs brown girl" scenario is a pure straw man. It does not deserve to be answered.