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> 1) People in USA/Canada/Other western world are _addicted_ to products made in misery (in China, for example)

The act of buying something made in a third world country greatly reduces the misery (by providing a job and an income to a person).

Btw, people in China have a pretty good lifestyle when compared to other people in third world countries - all thanks to Americans buying their stuff.

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South Korea and Taiwan are today 1st world nations whereas even a generation ago they were not. They didn't get there by wallowing in their perfect virginal misery, untouched by foreign trade. Quite the opposite, they got there by providing goods and services to the rest of the world, bootstraping their economy and their industrial base in the process.

Oh yeah? tell it to ones who immigrate from China to Kazakhstan for example: Kazakhstan has very limited trade with USA, but quality of live is much, much higher than Chinese.

Of course. Kazakhstan is not a third-world country. It's a former Soviet republic, an oiled country, and basically a Russian satellite.

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