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> Usa exports tons of digital services that balance the trade ledger.

In the accepted framework of global trade, where exchange value is either confounded or accepted as a use value, this is a correct stance. I think where we'd end up disagreeing is on that equality. I don't believe that just because you can sell targeted advertising for millions of dollar, that it's actually millions of dollars worth of social use value. We'd have to bicker about the definition of use value, obviously, but I find it hard to imagine an argument for why writing adware at Google is worth the money people are getting paid for it, relative to useful manual labour. In much the same way I don't believe the CEO's labour is worth 100x what the employee is paid, I don't believe the Google Engineer is worth 5x the gardener maintaining a park.

This spoken separation of use value and exchange value is missing from most internet opinions on the economy.

I hope that somewhat helps you understand how the stance can exist, even if I haven't explained it deeply enough for you to actually accept it.