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Comment by ecommerceguy

7 days ago

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Taking it in the can? The US is the richest nation in the world! If you're #1 it's really hard to say other nations are taking advantage of you.

Americans have been taken advantage of, but it's not been other countries taking advantage of Americans, it's rich Americans taking advantage of poor Americans.

> Decades of USA taking it in the can trade wise appears to be over, for now.

Except that the US hasn't been. Global trade has made the nation wealthier than ever. People who aren't wealthy have been taking it in the can, of course, but that's not because of global trade and these changes aren't going to fix that.

All that's going to happen is that if you aren't already very wealthy, you're going to get poorer.

Convincing the entire world to use its currency and sell it things cheaply is apparently somehow bad for America? I think you're about to get a very expensive lesson in economics.