The postindustrial United States, in which we have shifted to a service economy in which workers don’t produce goods but provide services to others, has been a hard transition for the American working class. I think the commonly reported resentment about American companies outsourcing work to Asia is a result of both frustration and envy. Somewhere else, someone has been given the work of usefulness, of creating things that make the engine of the country possible. Disregarding the horrific terms of that labor—sweatshops and debt—is easy in a place where slaves were once similarly hated
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