So it is true that consumer prices at Walmart went down because of free trade, but it's also true that towns and communities and states got gutted. Yes. The absence of fair trade and my own hometown was a very specific example. We had a carpet mill when I was growing up and it was 2,000 workers and now there's 150. There was an 8,000 person town. The entire town was dependent on the mill. Yeah. And mill's gone away. (21:25–21:37)
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Asserts that a carpet mill in his hometown reduced from 2,000 workers to 150 due to lack of fair trade.
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