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When what you're doing isn't valuable you have two options: You can try to do something that is valuable. Or you can try to make everyone else in the world do something that's worthless. You can be Chinese, or you can be French. You can build cars, or you can burn them. We don't want the Chinese doing worthless things like coming across the Yalu in hordes the way they did during the Korean War or crossing the Formosa Straits to belatedly settle Chiang Kai-shek's hash. Let's keep them busy making money.
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P.J. re-emerges. One and a half paragraphs in I began applauding his Classic Libertarian economics (pepe might have a bit of trouble with this).
Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of [economic] progress [or heading in a different direction]. The invention of fire cost many Cro-Magnon workers their jobs--all those people you paid to sit on you to keep you warm.
Actually, that last job doesn't sound so bad to me. Perhaps she is thinking about it?
Yes, ai, I agree that there is simply no gortex or feather coat substitute for the body-warmer you linked to.
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