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Clubber ◴[] No.43631933[source]
>The second thing we see is that Asian manufacturing in Asia produces US jobs. You go to Footlocker to buy a pair of $100 shoes because you can afford them. This creates jobs for the Footlocker employees, Nike designers, marketing teams, and other US people throughout this chain.

In all fairness, most of those jobs would still exist if manufacturing was brought onshore. The fact that they were manufactured in Asia makes no difference here, except for perhaps the longshoremen that was included in "other US people."

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1. 4ndrewl ◴[] No.43632434[source]
Incorrect. The price of manufacturing, because of the cost of living differences, would result in a far more expensive product.

Free-trade brings into being products that previously would not have existed (Nike trainers for the masses).