The cost of living “crisis” is real. This is driven by the US trying to maintain hegemony and deglobalizing - in part out of fear of China. Why don’t we (the US) instead try to de-escalate by asking to make reciprocal concessions with China on our military competition and begin re-allowing China to be our workshop. Good jobs for US workers should come from innovation and tackling monopoly power - more businesses competing means both lower prices but also more jobs. A multipolar world is inevitable. Bankrupting ourselves, impoverishing our people, or getting into WW3 is not worth a few more years of hegemony. #economy #peace #inflation #china