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Re:50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World by ChickenNugger on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @06:26PM (#34989831)
>It wasn't hippy tree huggers that sent all US manufacturing to China. undermining the entire US workforce, and leading to the current situation.

The working class still hasn't recovered from what NAFTA did to our share of wealth. (I'm trying to find the tweet + graph where I learned this in vain)

29 years later and we haven't caught up. The TPP (NAFTA, but for China) would have made it worse.

Further reading: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-...

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Re:50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World by ch4s3 on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @06:30PM (#34989873)
The TPP specifically didn’t include China.
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Re:50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World by mishac on Thursday March 02, 2023 @06:36AM (#34994569)
the entire point of TPP Was to exclude China...
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