The US is still a huge consumer, so a lot is to be made there. If there was any sort of focus on that buying power, or what was acceptable for import, that would be a completely other, world altering story.
For the US domestic economy, we have been a welfare state for decades. A trickle up welfare state, where median incomes cant even remotely afford shelter, healthcare, and education, so the government steps in to secure loans and other programs to subsidize the customer base, to the benefit of private banks and those with expensive things to sell.
