The global economy is not a zero sum game, and globalisation worked well for the USA as a whole.
Americans just didn’t share that newfound wealth with the lower classes as well as India did.
Americans just didn’t share that newfound wealth with the lower classes as well as India did.
And as someone who is in India frequently, the idea that newfound wealth was shared as a deliberate policy mechanism with lower classes is somewhat ... discredited.
I believe in globalization - but the US government should have done a better job helping people with it's impacts, and the developed world should stop pretending that there was no cost to others to make it happen.