Global wage standards and floors are well and good . But it ' s not enough . It has to be coupled with forcing globo corps hoarding all of the productivity gains to share it with ordinary workers . Sharing it through things like guaranteed health care , job training , higher education , infrastructure projects that keep America competitive . Things like building coastal robotic manufacturing hubs a la China where an entire product is built from start to finish within the same town , shipping out a single finished product rather than shipping parts all over during the build . To get enough Americans on board , the pitch cannot be purely raising wages for Indonesians . It has to be 100 % focused on how it improves their lives , via the things listed above .