All the economic geniuses of the neo-classical school wanted free trade and globalization. Well, now we have a world where you can get a $300 TV at Walmart to put in your trailer, and you can don your $10 sweatpants and watch 400 channels of nothing on that TV. For a few decades, anyway, until the wealth has been sucked out of North America and all that's left is a skim of high-tech, finance and resource extraction companies paying high wages and a vast undermass of the underemployed and the unemployed wondering how stagnation turned into permanent depression.
Idiots like Trump are the cause of this - the barely competent executives who agitated for a "free market" that inefficiently transfers wealth from the poor to the rich, which of course is infinitely better and more moral than the inefficient transfers in the other direction that so obsess these opponents of "socialism". How ironic it is that Trump, a rich boy who has mismanaged his inherited wealth for decades, can be seen as any kind of legitimate source of economic sanity by even the least aware of voters, but marketing and the gullibility of the electorate Trump reality every time.
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Better educated sadness than oblivious joy.
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