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Well, nobody knows the TPP yet. It's not public. The parts that have leaked are pretty bad. The comic mostly argues against a common hybrid republican/libert
by seiji 11y ago
Well, nobody knows the TPP yet. It's not public. The parts that have leaked are pretty bad. The comic mostly argues against a common hybrid republican/libertarian economic branding of "free trade." Free Trade branding ended up being a disguise for reducing labor costs by moving interchangeable capital to places where people work for (and live off of) $1/day instead of $800/day, but people never get the same freedom of movement rights as corporate capital. So, companies reduce costs, but people can't move to cheaper (or even better) places to improve their own costs.
As for arguing the comic is godawful, maybe de-escalate your rage meter for a while? It's just an informative comic posted to an online text forum run by a multi-billion dollar funding organization. It's all kinda meaningless overall.
- tptacek 11y agoIt's the opposite of an informative comic. It is a comic designed to deceive readers based on an illusory claim of expertise (its author is not an economist, nor is he apparently familiar with the TPP) in order to push an agenda. It is upsetting to see it repeatedly posted to HN.
- seiji 11y agoAs far as I can tell, we aren't licensed and bonded economists either, so there's no ground to take down another not-an-economist (No True Economist?).