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The US has never had or been a free market. "Free trade" is propaganda used to forcefully open foreign markets to US businesses looking for further growth.
by dilemma 9y ago
The US has never had or been a free market. "Free trade" is propaganda used to forcefully open foreign markets to US businesses looking for further growth.
- nine_k 9y agoApparently it's US government involvement that caused companies like Google to be so successful.
- saimiam 9y agoThis a false equivalence. The internet was designed from ground up to be borderless and untrammeled. Free trade was an initiative to tear down barriers around trade. The US government never had to request any other government to link up to the internet which is why their involvement in Google was not necessary. Otoh, if you look at an state visit, every head of state brings along a trade delegation whose goal is to ease trade.