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[–] SiWofos ago 

Thank you for taking the time to outline your position. You make some good points. However, in answer to your question about why can't the current workforce find a way to do it faster / cheaper / better quality? The sad truth is that factories in China (and increasingly other countries in Asia) have pay and conditions that would be intolerable to workers in the West.

For example, this article states that in 2013 Cambodian workers making textiles for the global market received a wage increase from $60 to $75 a month, plus a $5 living allowance. While two or three dollars per day is decent enough money in Cambodia (to have one of these jobs is a good thing over there), I imagine that the average North American, European, or Australian would indeed be grieved by such wages.

I see a global trend of rising third-world wages and falling first-world ones. This seems fair and good, but painful to those mid-to-low-skilled workers in the first-world who will lack the opportunities for advancement that their parents had.