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The Empire’s USD Pyramid Scheme Is Working Brilliantly—So Why ‘Fix’ It?

I truly don’t understand why Donald Trump suddenly shifted his agenda—from making America great again to pushing Americans back into hard, low-paid factory jobs.
For decades, the U.S. perfected a revolutionary economic model: outsource dirty, labor-intensive, low-wage manufacturing to countries like China, while focusing at home on innovation, finance, services, and technology. It was a win-win. Chinese workers endured 16-hour shifts, while Americans enjoyed cheap, high-quality goods—paid for with nothing but freely and endlessly printed U.S. dollars.

So why fix what isn’t broken—especially when it’s such a brilliantly engineered pyramid scheme? Why trade an economy that buys everything for nothing, for one built on steel, sweat, and low-margin labor?

America doesn’t need to compete with China by becoming China. It should lead by doing what it does best: importing talent, acquiring foreign innovations, and rebranding them as “Made in the USA.” Just like it does with Taiwan-made NVIDIA chips, the Ukraine-made iPhone, Google—founded by two Russians—WhatsApp from Ukraine, and soon, the “American” TikTok.

All paid for with printed dollars. That’s how you thrive—not by bringing back the dirty, outdated jobs America was wise enough to outsource long ago.
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