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Outsourcing jobs through NAFTA abs whatever iteration of international trade deals came after that is where jobs were lost, not because people from countries that were destabilized so other, “more free” countries could have overpriced crap was the problem. Corporations and shareholders saved on labor and pollution-disposal costs, prices went up and we demonized anyone who has a problem with these things as antiglobalists. The factions that do have a problem with these things largely have a problem with racism, sexism, globalism, and giving anything earned by anyone outside their personal in-group a modest living standard.
There are some of us who see that the ultrawealthy have declared this to be a zero-sum game, with stupidest of divisions, that are “real” in that they exist, but illusory in that they actually don’t matter to the survival of our preferred in-groups.
I posit that the real threat to our own survival is not questioning why it’sa zero-sum issue, when it’s nothing off the sort and get busy setting aside differences so we can work towards sustainable survival, of ourselves, our habitat, and others, including species, that share the same habitat.