re: #247 Romantic Heretic

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After WWII guess who the #1 manufacturing nation was? And guess who decided that manufacturing was beneath them? And started lending money, a lot of it to Japan and then China?

And here we stand.

IMO the decline of US manufacturing was not a historical inevitability — it’s the result of big finance capturing government and setting priorities accordingly. That’s why every US trade deal is bad for US manufacturing and good for US copyright holders and financiers.