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If there was no government, there'd be nothing to assign protective tariffs in the first place, and the market would be even 'freer'. As it stands the governmen
by vacri 10y ago
If there was no government, there'd be nothing to assign protective tariffs in the first place, and the market would be even 'freer'. As it stands the government still limits transactions to some extent (eg: embargos on hostile nations)
(of course, if there were no government, there wouldn't even be global trade in the first place, but I'm just talking about trade deals here)
- stretchwithme 10y agopeople traded before governments and international borders existed. But, yes, certainly harder to have property without governments protecting property rights.
- vacri 10y agoYes, they did. But long trade routes were expensive, and there was nothing like the current globalisation of labour. People making cheap garments in China weren't undercutting the European makers of clothes, for example.