At one point the promise of global free trade was specialization & optimal distribution based on natural resources, geography, & various paths of econ development. We all get rich by working together at what we're best at. Instead we got "jobs where labor is cheap, consumerism everywhere else."
tzeddek32How can you have those things cheaply without lower wage people making them? At some point either you pay the high prices or pretend not to see the wage slaves. But those are the only options.