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Can you tell me a bed time story about the mean old imperial working and middle class people? I want to hear about their mega profits too.

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Living within an empire does not mean you control it, of course. But probably means you're conditioned to justify it.

But yes, I agree. There is more in common with workers in the US and workers in Tijuana than with the owning class.

Yep. Glad you landed on it.

I never suggested otherwise.

“When the sweatshops you extract megaprofits from are right next door. Have heard the San Diego-Tijuana economy described as a kind of microcosm of the global economy.”

Who is ‘you’ in this sentence?

It was targeted at the kind of person that is submitting or upvoting this kind of article to this website.

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