> This is the giveaway of your own ideological animus. What does this even mean in any real context?

Read up on commercial paper - https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/070313/intro...

> the rich can only become richer if ordinary people have enough money to buy stuff from them

Also the rich/corporate simply move countries. They don't need the poor from the US, they'll globalize and get whatever good deals they can wherever they can because of free trade.