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In my opinion moves to global unification are unavoidable. Free trade also makes the world richer and better. Against the TPP there are justified complaints, th
by faragon 11y ago
In my opinion moves to global unification are unavoidable. Free trade also makes the world richer and better. Against the TPP there are justified complaints, that must be addressed (e.g. individual freedom), and others that are plain anti-capitalist propaganda.
One world, with freedom and abundance for all.
- beedogs 11y agoThe "abundance" in your world is limited mostly to Western nations and comes at the expense of everyone else.
- pjc50 11y agoNot just "Western nations", but western companies. And by western companies, I mean the Cayman-registered holding companies that record all the profit for multinationals. And perhaps a few billionaires as well.
- ionised 11y agoThis is the kicker. It's not even the average working person in the West that will benefit, it's big business.
- qb45 11y agoThe article surely is full of anti-corporate paranoia, but their points about security research of safety-critical systems is certainly valid and destruction of private property used for reverse engineering doesn't exactly sound like free trade. If TPP contains this kind of stuff, one may wonder if it has anything to do with trade and unification at all, unless by unification you mean "monopolization by obfuscation".
- ionised 11y agoThat freedom and abundance will only ever reach a small subsection of the global population. These treaties are written by the wealthy for the wealthy. The average schmuck will be worse off. So this TTP and TTIP can go fuck themselves.
- joesmo 11y agoWhenever 'freedom' is mentioned in such a context, it obviously means the lack of freedom as in the USA Freedom Act, Freedom Fries, etc. Free trade is therefore, anything but.