They became an unemployed proletariat In the city of Rome. degraded by politicians free bread and circusesand Rome as a republic stopped working. The United States turned the jobs of Its ordinary workers over to outside laborbecause It was cheaper than American laborby accepting imports vastly in excess of our exports. Imports that are cheaper than American.made goods because of foreign wage levels a tenth or less as high (as was initially true of Japan. which now relies on other rdvantages over United States production). Onesided Immigration of lowwage labor has the same effect. The Americans whose jobs are given away to outside labor. like the pauperized Roman workers and farmers. will not go away. They have no place to go.
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