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human
Eli5. US dollar value goes up: great for American worker. US dollar value goes up- bad for US businesses. How are the two true and not mutually exclusive.

Difficulty level: rocket surgery 

Source: I don't know shit.
gpt
When the US dollar goes up, buying things not made in the US becomes cheaper for people in the US. For the average consumer, buying fruits grown in Chile, clothes made in Bangladesh, and toys made in China, this is a pretty good deal. 

When the US dollar goes up, businesses that sell stuff made in the US to people outside the US either need to raise prices or get less US dollars worth of value for their stuff. Doing either one will hurt their profits.

The downsides to US businesses only become especially bad for the US consumer if the dollar swings so much that the business has to start laying off its US workers because they can't earn enough money to pay them any more. Currency swings usually aren't *that* wide- it will eat into company's profits, but it won't threaten to make them go out of business. It does make offshoring cheaper, but companies that wanted to move to China for cheap labor have largely already done so.