RE ZERO-SUM GAME ETC

Economists have held, generally, that trade is a positive sum game.

Many Presidents, and others, have been fed this view. Here is former President Clinton, a great globalist:

"The more complex societies get and the more complex the networks of interdependence within and beyond community and national borders get, the more people are forced in their own interests to find non-zero-sum solutions. That is, win–win solutions instead of win–lose solutions.... Because we find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well — so we have to find ways that we can all win, we have to accommodate each other...."

—Bill Clinton, December 2000.

 

In fact, I think it is becoming clearer that trade and foreign investment, especially in our modern era of Western developed globalist IT, are in many ways building up a negative sum game situation, particularly for the West, to the extent it exists any longer as a distinct, recognizable, political entity.

This has been the big legacy of the 20th century.

It is, after WW II, overwhelmingly, our American responsibility.

Never, in the field of human conflict, has so much been given away to so many, by so few, for so little, so quickly.