My research finds higher living standards in all the countries the US turkey consumers gleefully buy consumer products from. The list is endless. That’s why there are big deficit money problems here.
The USA was slowly stealthily EMBEZZLED of our manufacturing money CREATING businesses after 1971. Creating some THING you can touch and FEEL is similar to legal counterfeiting.
Sales and service jobs simply absorb some of the money from jobs creating products. Food fuel metal can openers coffee mugs etc, can all be converted into cash. The stupid USA got bamboozled into creating stupid rules and regulations, that require more and more tax absorbing tax paid employees With benefits.
Trump and I knew this decades ago, but could not do anything about it until things got bad enough to end the trend. That’s why he’s so popular with the masses. Anybody that does not like Trump has probably been very happy with the past status quo.