Integration reduces risk of conflict. You don't want to attack the country that buys your grain, and they don't want to attack the country that buys their steel

Integration reduces risk of conflict. You don't want to attack the country that buys your grain, and they don't want to attack the country that buys their steel. It's a mutually beneficial relationship, and it's one reason why global conflict is near all time lows today. Furthermore, I don't understand the fetishization of factory work (that both the left and right seem to have). It's menial, tough, body-breaking work, with long hours in sweaty, dangerous conditions. It's main appeal is to very poor nations where it is less awful than the alternative they had anyway (substance agriculture or starving). It's a good thing that we can become more productive and have higher paying safer jobs in the west and that in 'third world nations', they can find productive work that is safer and higher paying than their previous situation. The US had a lot of factory work when it was a poor nation, but there is no good reason to return. It's the concept of comparative advantage, and it makes us all better off on net.