The majority of Americans are barely scraping by as it is. Make it so consumer goods are a lot more expensive and you will really see what the cool zone has to offer. You just know the person making this comment is some comfortable labor aristocrat who loves their high end luxury treats who thinks everyone poorer than them is just blowing money on new iPhones every other month. If the US were cut off from manufactured goods produced cheaply from outside the US, the resulting collapse would make 90s Russia look like a balloon party.
The majority of Americans are barely scraping by as it is. Make it so consumer goods are a lot more expensive and you will really see what the cool zone has to offer. You just know the person making this comment is some comfortable labor aristocrat who loves their high end luxury treats who thinks everyone poorer than them is just blowing money on new iPhones every other month. If the US were cut off from manufactured goods produced cheaply from outside the US, the resulting collapse would make 90s Russia look like a balloon party.