It's called giving a company tax payer money to prevent them from leaving, enough to reimburse them for what they'd lose in labor cost. Carrier sacrifices nothing. It was Carrier that made the offer Trump couldn't refuse. Trump, Pence, and the Indiana tax payers got played.

"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea