yet in absolute terms your income to value ratio on property has skyrocketed so your cheap tv or "affordable" fast food don't mean jack (especially when in absolute parity terms with past prices these things have gotten more expensive too). when vast swathes of the country are making minimum wage and their income is being absorbed by rent, and no job prospects because foreign manufacturing took it all up what's the point of that economy? besides, offshore goods aren't cheaper if we are constantly being gouged yet when each country had its own manufacturing people still bought stuff and could still afford it. face it, neolib free market garbage assumes that the lowest cost is the ultimate goal, each country has unlimited pool of money and capital to buy everything and that actual ownership of assets is irrelevant because it's all fluid rootless capital anyway.  you can now leave and take your small hat with you.
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