TO AMERICANS WHO OPPOSED THE TPP FROM THE LEFT: The 11 other countries are moving forward, but scrapped labor and environmental protections the US got them to include. Once again, you compared reality to imagined perfection rather than probable alternatives.
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Replying to @NGrossman81
Thing is, a good % of them opposed it to protect WC jobs. I wonder how this situation affects jobs.
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Replying to @LakeLorene
The most likely effect was neutral or slightly positive for jobs in the aggregate. Some factories would've moved, but US companies would've gotten more customers, and the costs of consumer goods and manufacturing inputs would've gone down. Some people lose jobs, others gain jobs.
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Replying to @NGrossman81 @LakeLorene
Basically MFG GDP has been fairly constant, while employment has fallen. This is how we know it’s true.
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Red line US manufacturing output. Blue line US manufacturing employment. We're making more stuff than ever. We're just doing it with robots.pic.twitter.com/367ygfWirB
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