"By exploiting global inequality" What a Jewish way of expressing this situation. No one (in America anyway) is forcing a Chinese person to take $0.08 an hour to make shoes. But they (or some other country in poverty) are doing it. Why? Cuz it's the best opportunity they have. If not, they'd surely go do whatever else they have there because it's better for them. The thing is - it's benefiting *both* sides of the equation. And you can't really say one benefits more than the other because maybe the US gets more financially in total sum, but if they didn't they wouldn't be involved in this deal at all because it wouldn't be worth it to them. So they'd have less profit, but the poor person would now have nothing (or at least less) This also seems to be the basis of Trumps negotiations with China. Basically hey - we need to renegotiate a better deal because we're getting fucked. And when China said no, China had to say no by losing more than the US would. So basically, China refusing to participate in this whole scheme was still a winning position for America So yeah, just needed to pick this nit - the US isn't exploiting shit. The Chinese created way the fuck too many people to be able to support its own citizens, and now the US is providing them a shortcut to getting ahead.