Those who still believe in *Free* Trade and *Free* money, are the last to figure out, that it will only cost them $Everything. Which is somewhat the opposite of *Free*. They are history's biggest self-absorbed dullards, and the last to know...
The globalized economy is a colossal Ponzi Scheme in which the vast majority survive on the bread crumbs falling off the table. The possibility of 7 billion people achieving a consumption-oriented lifestyle is zero, so the World Bank conveniently set the poverty line at $1.25/day to legalize global slavery. As long as someone else's children are doing the suffering, it's "all good". Post-2008, this illusion was extended merely by plundering all future generations.