In the last 50 years, not once has it been positive, and it's systematically gotten worse. The US must be a 3rd world country then, right? 50 years being appar

In the last 50 years, not once has it been positive, and it's systematically gotten worse. The US must be a 3rd world country then, right? 50 years being apparently looted like that. Oh wait, it is actually right at the pinnacle of strongest economies in the world. How can that be? Because maybe, just maybe, it isn't zero sum. As I mentioned the trade balance is largely a myth (Apple brings hundreds of billions home, while China nets tens of dollars per iPhone, yet the whole gets attributed to China. This goes across every major US manufacturer), and the US has been an enormous beneficiary of it, not only in economic power but in quality of life.