Made in "Your Country Here" ; Is it important to you?

[ShadowHM]

And now, after centuries of profiting and draining african and asian countries, we in the west start complaining about the playing field not being level.

I am not guilty of those sins. The lack of level playing field has many root causes, most of which have to do with geography. (See Guns, Germs and Steel for a primer on that.) They are, of course, exacerbated by the venality of general human nature. If you want to feel guilty about the sins of your forefathers, go right ahead.

If we didn't have these sources of cheap labour that are making stuff we daily use for us, we would indeed have more work at home, but we would have less time for our jobs such as fill in your weird modern job name-manager which actually make a lot more money.

No, those of us with our 'weird modern job name-manager which actually make a lot more money' jobs would have a bit less money, but our socialist national goverments might have more tax revenue, due to actually receiving income tax from those citizens who now are unemployed to help pay for the services all citizens receive.

I think buying local for environmental reasons (the farmers market example of deebye) is a good reason but living in a western country and buying local to keep jobs at home sounds selfish to me. (and already mentioned by a few others probably also doesn't make a lot of sense)

I can't think of any response to that. If buying the cheapest products, made in places with little-to-no human rights and little-to-no environmental rules, helping support governments that have no incentive to change that set-up makes you feel virtuous, please enjoy the feeling.