Hardly.
It was not the pay of workers, but the expected returns of investors.
Which is dependent on how much workers are paid.
There. Now you're no longer confused.
Or are you going to say that US corporate leades should just stay home and pay every stupid tax and every goonion demand without seeking alternatives, which is their fiduciary duty to their stockholders?
Companies set up shop offshore because taxes are absurdly high in the US, insurance and regulations are absurdly onerous, and goonions make absurd demands.
Each and every reason is in itself a perfectly justifiable reason for anyone in a free country to take his money or his company and move it out of the reach of the people trying to rob him.
Explain why anyone should remain in a country where their livelihood is viewed as nothing except a source of meat for jackals and vultures.
You see, worker wages have remained nearly unchanged when inflation is accounted for, since the 1960's. CEO pay and investor returns, however, have increased four-hundred fold.
So what? The reason a person starts a company or invests in a company is to maximize HIS returns. It's not his job to boost worker wages or pay more taxes or anything else. If a worker wants more pay, he should learn skills that pay more.
The reason outsourcing began was due to the unrealistic expectation of investors that profit margins increase every year.
And with outsourcing, did profit margins continue to increase annually?
Yes, they did.
Therefore the expectations of the investors was not "unrealistic".
200% profit is not enough, they want 300% next year or they are pulling out.
And if they can go to a place where they're earning 50% more than last year, what's the problem? It's their money, isn't it?
You do agree that it's their money, right, not yours?
Companies realize that there is only so much market share and a limit to profit growth, yet to maintain investors they made cuts where possible, labor. China, Mexico, Taiwan, India... all offer labor at 100x less cost, thus th companies that could and can, have moved manufacturing to these countries and passed the profits to the investors. This has added to unemployment in this country and a strengthening of the other nations.
Clearly then, we need blame the former employees who scared their former employers away.