Is That the Right Response?

In an environment of overcapacity and low growth rates, firms and countries are kind of competing to get more of that manufacturing share. And we see that the countries that use a lot of robots, germany, japan, ad south korea, are able to retain a higher share of manufacturing employment than those who don't. So one response to this, naturally, that i think it's becoming more common, is it would seem that throwing up new economic trade barriers will bring back good jobs. Why is that an incorrect way to look at what we're seeing? Globaly? That's, i think, a reallyy interesting question. I think on the world scale, it's

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