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That's why I'm opposed to free trade and want fair trade instead. Like, it's not wrong for e.g. EU to impose a tax on products/services produced by companies ab
by tomp 8y ago
That's why I'm opposed to free trade and want fair trade instead. Like, it's not wrong for e.g. EU to impose a tax on products/services produced by companies abroad that have much less strict environmental/employment laws.
- prostoalex 8y agoGet two men in the room and they will come up with three different ideas of what fair is.
- Spivak 8y agoTrade among nations with comparable or higher labor and environmental standards is free. No need for a notion of fair.
- anonuser123456 8y agoRight, but your definition of 'fair' employment laws might make poor countries unable to compete and thus stay poor. Example: poor countries can't afford the level of worker safety that rich countries can. So do you not trade with them? They then stay poor and work as subsistence farmers, something a lot worse than working in a sweatshop.
- tomp 8y agoYou’re right, that’s not good either. We need a better balance. Right now, European companies can just export production to India/China, skirting our environmental laws, making them essentially useless.