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Potentially off-topic, but you brought it up: what could possibly entice you about the TPP?

• ZeroGravitas 9y ago
  Trade deals like TPP are in theory a good thing and make the world more efficient and put minimums on environmental damage and abuse of workers. There's some real world stuff that blunts this a bit. Oligarchs can capture more than their fair share of the benefits and not recompense the direct losers (e.g. people having to change jobs and retrain and the areas they live in). And corporate interests can take advantage of the negotiations to enshrine in what is effectively global law things that benefit them, but are a net negative for the planet e.g overly strong IP protection. People can still think they are good overall and that the energy should be focused on fixing the bad parts or mitigating the problems. Trump on the other hand opted out of TPP and then said he wanted to make individual deals with the same countries. This fixes none of the problems I see with TPP, probably makes them worse in fact, so even if you hate trade deals he's not actually achieved anything but a minor delay.
• kragen 9y ago
  That was not a list of Trump-administration actions that I was opposed to; it was a list of Trump-administration actions that I think are important. I find most of them odious, but that wasn't my point.
  • acct1771 9y ago
    That's why I said "potentially off-topic" - I'd like to hold you to an answer on this, if you'd be so gracious!