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Re:U.S. companies banned from selling components to ZTE on Monday April 16, 2018 @02:17PM (#16851363)
> I'm all for leveling the playing field

No you're not, or you'd realize you're advocating a zero sum game

It's the same as advocating for more women and minorities in industry; white men lose. Some other side will lose, because our economy doesn't operate on "even playing fields."

It operates on "I have advantage and must protect it." The rich have an advantage of being rich and can sell some argument about knowing how to use their leverage to build companies to put people to work.

USA had "The rest of the world is a smoking crater." after WW2

China has "No one else has a manufacturing base for electronics like we do."

Advocating for a level playing field would be like universal healthcare, and not being forced trade away to the rich elite our creative endeavors for basic survival.

You're peddling disingenuous political correctness that ignores physical reality.