[JDEW]

> The laissez-faire approach gave people happy, low-stress, and materially rich lives.

The usual schtick conveniently ignoring the absolute marauding of resources from non-western countries and the effective slave labor extracted from Asia.

[bpodgursky]

You can't wax poetic about the merits about turning your own workforce into "slave labor" (the entire OP point), and then complain about countries buying things produced by the slave labor.