A knife divides the domestic marketplace, severing those goods and services that are internationally traded from those that are more or less immune to international competition.
Movie tickets keep going up.
College tuition has not come down. And if you happen to need to staff out a team of sitcom writers, you can end up spending a million dollars a year to hire even a modest journeyman of the profession. Many of these services, such as haircuts, restaurant meals, liposuction, entertainment, apartment rentals are indifferent to the cost of labor in China. Only a small part of the service sector does. Much as the Japanese once oppressed the world with their relatively low standard of living, we now oppress the world with our sophisticatedly high standard of living.