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Yes we do, search the term 'rust belt'. Agricultural jobs turned to automotive jobs that turned to no jobs and wide areas of depressed economic activity.

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There is no one “we”. Many groups of people gained from cheaper goods and services. Some groups of people lost from loss of income.

Yeah there's gonna be a whole lot of "comparative advantage" coming down the pipe, but the winners will become fewer and fewer by the day.

And we shoved a million more people in prisons on that time frame, that are now an administrative burden on society. 'We' all pay for that.

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