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"America’s current economy is extremely corrupt and overregulated, almost as much as mainland China at this point. The same people own everything - there is almost no competition anymore"
America is way way way less corrupt than China. One of the consequences of free trade is the lack of competition because large corporations get to outsource and scale up globally which few people can hope to go up against and when they try they usually get gobbled up. Doing away with free trade would level the playing field in regards to regulations, labour costs etc.
