The practice of laying off employees in, say, the USA, and outsourcing their jobs to developing nations able to do the same work at a far lower cost is defensible ONLY if Americans believe they are entitled to shop wherever they want to and that they have the right to choose to pay less if they wish to. When Americans are willing to accept government-mandated price-fixing, annual inflation rates of 10-20%, and a stagnant wage structure, the outsourcing will go away all on its own