> How can you compromise your own citizens for the sake of other countries You don't! Not collectively, not en masse, and not universally. MANY citizens win.

> How can you compromise your own citizens for the sake of other countries You don't! Not collectively, not en masse, and not universally. MANY citizens win. And even the people this hurts, they likely are better off because things are so cheap. Would you rather be unemployed in 2016, or 1916? In 2016, you likely have TV, a mobile phone and the internet. The problem is usually in specific areas - geographic locations. A huge part is likely the unwillingness of people to move. Even in the midst of the GFC, mining towns in the midwest were booming. > many videos of Milton Friedman defending free trade, And the example he used - Hong Kong - is EVEN RICHER now. https://www.google.com.au/search?q=gdp+per+capita+hong+kong&oq=gdp+per+capita+hong+kong https://www.google.com.au/search?q=gdp+per+capita+hong+kong&... Free trade DEFINITELY hurts people, but on the whole, makes life better for almost every citizen.