"We are employing fewer and fewer people to make goods." True. But the main reason is technology, not free trade. We can put up trade barriers and either pay workers what they get in Mexico or China or replace workers with more robots. Neither alternative is an improvement. Better to use our increased wealth to create more jobs in seniors care, education, health, public transit, etc. But to do that, our better off would have to pay higher taxes. And that's the greatest horror to all the Trump- and O'Leary-lovers who now dwell in these pages.