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by colechristensen 504 days ago
Sure.

We do not need to rely on foreign labor which is a tiny fraction of American labor to maintain our quality of life. Lots of things need to be reorganized to make this work and some people with a lot of wealth will have a lot less certainly.

But foreign manufacturing of nearly everything is relatively new, you have to remember. America was plenty prosperous not so long ago before we started exporting so many jobs to Mexico, then China and beyond. We had the highest wages in the world then too.

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American goods used to be exported across the world until somewhere in the 1960s Japan made cheaper cars and televisions.
> some people with a lot of wealth will have a lot less certainly.

I mean, this alone makes whatever you are proposing a non-starter in America, surely you realize that