don't forget they also have to ship those goods around. normally local production should be preferred but because we live in retarded market schemes it's all about low costs, meaning "who can i exploit the cheapest ?". global markets are also the only reason the globalists hold any power at all. if it was all nations with their own closed markets, importing only what they can't produce, there'd be no international companies and likewise no illegals flooding nations. but the governments gave up their autonomy for the money. any nation could just 100% shut its borders down and work out something to have a functional life. in some cases that'd mean to have to revert back to simpler times because they've been living an unsustainable life, requiring excessive exploitation. the absurdity of our time is that markets act as global entities while nations act as regional entities fighting over territory (resources, build space, geo-strategic locations) but not even for their own people, because those don't matter due to international companies wanting to import cheap workforce and "voters" - or just use the influx for cheap divide and conquer (people fighting people), to create a low effort market that buys their stuff and to keep their investments (housing / renting prices) high. there's no sense in anything because even if following the market logic to the end you'll have created a dystopia that at some point runs out of the resources powering all of the process, having wasted it all.
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