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It's an interesting question. But doesn't the fact that coastal regions are pro-trade and interior lands are against it tell us that people are pro-trade when t
by bambax 10y ago
It's an interesting question. But doesn't the fact that coastal regions are pro-trade and interior lands are against it tell us that people are pro-trade when they engage in it and against it when they don't?
So a response may be to get more people engage in trade and globalization instead of only seeing the bad sides, the closed factories, etc.
How does one do that I don't know. Maybe Google should move its campus to Iowa.
- nostrademons 10y agoI think that's both an accurate assessment and a useful prescription. I don't know how to get more people to engage in trade either. Better education, probably. Even though I live in the Bay Area, used to work for a multinational corporation, know plenty of immigrants (including a parent), and have entrepreneurial friends that basically employ an army of international contractors through UpWork, I still find myself reluctant to take the plunge and take advantage of globalization.
- taurath 10y agoSorry if you're employing an army of international contractors through upwork you're taking advantage of globalization.
- nostrademons 10y agoI'm not, but I have a number of friends who are.
- taurath 10y agoAh wow, I completely misread. I'll take my downvote and move on then!
- throwaway911911 10y agoGoogle is hiring in Iowa: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/council-bluffs/working-here.html https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/co...
- randomguy23 10y agoIt's not that interior lands are against trade, it's that we are against trade that negatively advantages the US. When China can dump goods in the US with little to no tariffs, and the US cannot send goods to China, cannot send innovative products to China without them being copied, something is wrong. China has stolen technology and products from the rest of the world, why continue to reward them for it?