The US widget buyers in the fantasy scenario are 100% not getting fucked by tariffs, because–again, fantasy scenario–their dollars are not supporting slavery, wage slavery, or some unjustifiable bullshit that’s barely technically not wage slavery. Gutting economic opportunities for bad actors that exploit labor is a win for everybody, and claiming otherwise is evidence of a misunderstanding born of too narrow a scope.
Basically, if I save a buck by poisoning my town’s water, I haven’t won.
That aside, I loved reading this. I already kind of knew it but your version made me know it better. Thanks for writing it.
I don’t know about “with any value”. I think he just thinks he’s the only person. And the other people are…something else. Like people, but not.