Free trade isn’t free. It costs folks like you and me.
Free trade costs a buck of fiiiiive.
No really, who actually thinks there was ever free trade anyway? There are always tariffs and taxes.
Throw in with that massive imbalances of labor costs and other market forces, and you can always point to inequities. But on the flip side, in a perfect world, given a long enough time line, differences in markets and standards of living should equalize. Unfortunately, this typically takes generations to occur, and there are always other cheap markets to exploit.
The problem is that the equilibrium standard of living is a weighted average of the countries involved: and we are both the most expensive and least-populated compared to Chy-na.