Cause most of them have moved their manufacturing to China and people live on and care about real goods, and a lot of those (or the inputs to manufacture) come from China. We can do all the middle power trade we want, so long as the real goods come from China, we’re swapping one markup centre for another.

I tried to buy window cleaning tools (Unger) from a middle power the other day after reading they’re supposed to be made in Germany. Package arrived and nope - Made in China. Unger only collected margin in Germany.