Yes, economic dislocation is an unfortunate side effect of becoming more efficient and prosperous as a country and there are always winners and losers. But free trade means there are more winners than losers everywhere.
I'm sorry that changing economics and progress caused your business to become obsolete. But I don't think a world where we establish artificial government barriers in order to keep the buggy whip industry intact is very smart.
That's disingenuous. His business wasn't made obsolete, it was outsourced and the same items are being made by lower cost labor, in a country, I might add, that probably won't be to inclined to make deliveries should hostilities break out...