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TwilightZone

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6. Uh, hello? Trump was the one shipping jobs overseas...
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 07:24 PM
Dec 2016

and using cheap labor to build his shit. That's kind of the point we've been trying to make for months now.

"In the Internet age, it's easy for those of us who never interact with blue-collar workers to ignore how seemingly simple things we do harm them in ways invisible to us."

Uh, never? You should think about getting out more. Or saying hi to your refuse workers when they pick up your trash.

"We need to understand how the things we celebrate, or simply accept as economically inevitable— from apps to cheap clothes, imported food and toiletries — hurt American workers by shipping once seemingly untouchable jobs to Canada and Mexico."

Well, no shit. And the rest of the world, too, just in case you think NAFTA is the only agreement we have with anyone regarding trade. Newsflash: some of those jobs have been gone for decades and aren't coming back.

Just because the author is blissfully unaware of how the rest of the world works doesn't mean the rest of us are.

Funny - the point of the article seems to be that liberals are out of touch. The author then proceeds to prove it.

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