From this chart, we can clearly see that the middle class of the western world (80th percentile) has been paying all the cost of globalization. What's worse is that this chart is only in terms of income growth. I think if we looked at the percentile breakdown in terms of wealth growth, it would be even worse (remember, if you're wealthy, you can reinvest most of your income and it will compound over time).
Wikipedia suggests Flint has had a budget deficit for many years. That means wealth is flowing into Flint, not out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint,_Michigan#First_financia...
That's what oligopolies do. In a sane system a single large employer would have to contribute to building a self-sustaining independent ecosystem of businesses in an area, instead of being allowed to extract profit and then leave when there's more profit to be made elsewhere.
Monocultures are an unworkable idea with toxic effects in economics just as much as they are in nature.
It's a lot more like putting a lot of wealth in, but then not putting more in.
The plutocrats of our country do not have the right to drain the wealth of the "under-class" so they can redistribute it to another underclass in another country... which will of course conveniently help their economic interests at the same time.