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There are about 32 Million more people working in the USA since NAFTA c.1996 v. 2016 (partial data).
They all are not all working at Wally World stocking shelves or at Micky D's flippin' burgers.
How many wagon builders and buggy whip manufacturing workers were still making those products in the USA c. 1939?
Over all the consumer has benefited from cost efficiencies. Some workers lose out but things were not so great in the last 2nd greatest recession; 1981 - 1983 -- the dark Reagan years when manufacturing jobs and workers' unions had their throats cut and their guts ripped out -- no one likes to talk about that but there was a lot of ''blood'' on the floor in that go round. There really was not much left when NAFTA was negotiated.
In the NAFTA Treaty Mexico was a beneficiary -- the USA and Canada had close production cost parity.
The UK wants it their way but doesn't want to pay the EU price -- the EU says Fuck Off nicely but could you stay in NATO please -- if we fall you will be next.
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