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What is free trade though? If you think about it, it’s a form of resource and labor transfer. From poor countries to wealthy ones without reverting to coloniali
by bitxbit 7y ago
What is free trade though? If you think about it, it’s a form of resource and labor transfer. From poor countries to wealthy ones without reverting to colonialism.
- pjc50 7y agoThis is a simplistic statement, but it's an important question as to who benefits from the trade and whether it's really symmetrical. A lot of 90s and 00s anti-globalisation activists discussed this. (The canonical example of exploitative "free" trade is the banana republics, sponsored by the US for the United Fruit Company)