“So you’re saying that my 100% negative trade deficit with the grocery store—buying but not selling there—will somehow cause me to lose my job? Please explain.”
If you’re employed in a field that off-shored your job to a location that pays their workers .05 cents on the dollar and has no “EPA, OSHA” and other US government OR similar international regulations to follow....but is miraculously deemed an “equal” trading partner by mindless drone/ economic geniuses back home....yea, you might run into a problem when you stroll down to your grocery store to buy some dog chow.
But then you already know that. “Free” trade will not be equal trade until we turn the US into a complete turd world shit hole. When we employ 9 year olds in garment factories on 16 hour shifts... then you can come back and talk logically about “free trade”.
Umm... You're going completely outside my analogy. You implied that just by shopping at the grocery store, it could lead to the loss of my job.
When I mentioned the grocery store, that was a limited analogy of my economic relationship with that store, nothing more. The store isn't the third world. They don't pay $0.05 an hour. I have a 100% negative "trade deficit" with that store.
The question is: is my trade relationship with that store a Bad Thing? Should I be angry at them or stop shopping there because of my negative "trade deficit" with them?
But then you already know that. “Free” trade will not be equal trade until we turn the US into a complete turd world shit hole. When we employ 9 year olds in garment factories on 16 hour shifts... then you can come back and talk logically about “free trade”.
Workers at the grocery store make about 25% of what I make. Should I stop shopping there because they make less than me?
Should everyone make the same wage, regardless of where they live or the work that they do?