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Detroit is one mono-industrial city out of 20,000 cities in the US. Did the country as a whole gain by trading with Japan?

• CPLX 3y ago
  It wasn't a rhetorial question. Have you gone there in the past 10 years, and driven through the bombed out neighborhoods, seen the aging factory complexes? It's very hard to do that and then think there was nothing we could have done differently and better with our post-1970's industrial and trade policies.
  • twelve40 3y ago
    you're cherry-picking one city, in one industry that fell behind, and using it as an argument against all international trade? or just some international trade? what is your point?
    • CPLX 3y ago
      One city? At minimum it’s a massive region of the country stretching from Allentown to Omaha and up to Rochester and down to Cincinnati. More accurately it’s basically every part of the country that’s not a city oriented towards finance or media. We’re talking millions upon millions of families shattered, communities left to die, whole areas racked by joblessness and addiction, and a society more unequal than ever. My argument would be that we shouldn’t have fucking done that. It’s possible to invest in and support domestic manufacturing. The Europeans aren’t this dumb they haven’t gone down this road.