Possibly, but how do you handle that many variables and predict the outcome? This seemed to be the point of the TPP, whether it was flawed or not, to set some

Possibly, but how do you handle that many variables and predict the outcome? This seemed to be the point of the TPP, whether it was flawed or not, to set some kind of standards that would allow us to compete on a more level playing field. Theoretically I think it is expected that things will level out eventually, as a nation like China has a economic revolution the people become wealthier and eventually they aren't a cheap manufacturing solution anymore and factories move somewhere else and so on and so forth. That is why I feel like taking some of the profits from globalization and investing them into a) our own people and b) environmental and human rights in the countries we do business is the best, least wasteful solution that doesn't assume we can solve an NP-Complete problem in polynomial time.