A nation cannot continue to export wealth at the rate that the US has over the last 20 years and not suffer for it.
Economists keep telling us otherwise, but then economists never seem to suffer for the absurdity of their predictions. They’re typically academics, immune to unemployment unless they’re caught with a live boy or a dead girl in their beds.
The way things are these days, the boy would probably have to be dead as well to have any kind of negative effect.