HappySqurriel on 03 February 2009
Whether people will admit to it or not, the underlying assumption of taking a protectionist stance is that there is only so many kinds of products that can be produced and having people in other countries make a product (essentially) takes a job away from someone locally. While this is (sort of) true in the short run, in the long run this simply isn't the case ...
We are actually at a fairly interesting point in history (fairly similar to the industrial revolution) where countless jobs that were unimaginable just a couple of years ago are being created to fulfill need people never knew they had before. An example of this is videogames, while they are a massive industry today few people would have ever predicted its existance 50 years ago.
