But who says the system self-destructs? The market has worked in this case - computers are yet cheaper, without a loss in quality. What outcome would be preferable?
A sustainable one. What happens when manufacturing moves from China to someplace even cheaper with harsher labor laws?
What if, instead of our liberal economic policies lifting Chinese people out of poverty, our liberal economic policies are allowing Chinese people to pull us down to poverty?
Everyone assumes that the future will have wealthy Chinese and never considers that maybe it will just have poor Americans.
Global neo-feudalism is the way the economy is going.