@fal1026 @justnormalkorean they were not originally "communist breeding grounds"...
the AFL-CIO was a union conceived from its beginning to undermine other unions, as a communist (aka pro-jewish) "union".
issue is, there's been nobody at the top who cares to not just outsource jobs overseas or across the border (Mexico).
they did not have to allow this to happen, but they did. it was, and is, "American" state policy to undermine workers.
the USA is rich in resources and land enough that we do not need to rely upon anyone else for almost anything. no, we don't need legal/illegal immigrants either; there's nothing wrong with achieving a kind of equilibrium in births/deaths, technology was making us more productive per worker anyway!
and besides that, bringing in peoples from around the world of lower IQ to first world nations (well, the USA was formerly first world, not so much anymore), to suddenly have first world living standards, dramatically increased the amount of local and oceanic pollution. fuck the carbon in the air bullshit, look at your local rivers, your land, the ocean near you.
not to mention the sheer amount of oceanic pollution from constantly running absolutely enormous cargo ships and tankers over it, dwarfing all the world's car pollution. oh, and all the airplanes constantly flying in and out of all manner of airports because even though they don't have passengers they can't stay in one place too long.
none of this is really efficient in a way that makes much sense, except that it is efficient in extracting wealth from the have nots to the haves, and ensuring no country participating in the system wholeheartedly is ever autarkic/independent.