That post is just weird ... I think it needed about 300% more words.
1. Surely you are old enough to know not long ago we wouldn't do business with China until they addressed human rights.
2. They didn't adjust, we caved and took their cheap labor.
3. We leveraged China against the American worker and American's took it in the shorts with job loss and pay reduction.
4. Corps use Free markets to explain their needs. Farmers in California are complaining they don't have enough field workers for 2013, so they are asking for additional looser illegal labor laws (lol) so they can get additional cheap labor. Not respecting how free markets also include labor and the wages people will work for.
5. So in all of that, a curve ball comes in. Foxconn who employess 1.3 million Chinese, is looking to replace 1 million workers with robots in the next 2-3 years. To reduce their costs and up their quality.
6. There are people in America that feel if China can do robots for most of the work, there is no reason America cannot. Since the cost of robots is close enough to the same in China as America, it could lead to a shift in business coming back to America to save on ocean freight, thus American robot created product could be cheaper then Chinese product.
It's sort of like a what has happened and where things maybe going with mfg jobs.
The reply was to point out that employers want to reduce cost, at any cost. And there are points they can go which are too far, it's not all woe is the job creator.