alt Hacker News> It's true that free trade is hugely beneficial to the US economy as a whole, particularly with the USD being the reserve currency.
It's true that free trade is hugely beneficial to large cap U.S. companies and their shareholders.
If you are U.S. worker without a lot of equity in the market all you notice is that your job gets outsourced.
This “free money” also inflates housing prices. It’s one application of “trickle down economics” that works; except it’s housing prices.
Even for highly paid Silicon Valley engineers what does it matter if much of that money goes right back to landlords?