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It is wild to see someone bringing the benefits of tariffs and free markets at the same time. The two are kind of antithetical.
by sofixa 1y ago
It is wild to see someone bringing the benefits of tariffs and free markets at the same time.
The two are kind of antithetical.
- safety1st 1y agoWell, an internal, relatively free market with some barriers against foreign competition is exactly the strategy that a number of Asian countries employed to get rich, and furthermore, earlier in its history the USA did exactly the same thing. Whether it is "antithetical" or not. I think your comment is low quality. Like I made an effort here to write at length about how government and economics work in the hopes that someone would learn from it, and you strawmanned one idea and called it "wild." This is not the Hacker News way and it is not commenting in good faith.
- Sammi 1y agoFree markets are unnatural. Monopoly is natural. Free markets only exist in unnaturally heavily regulated circumstances. If you let the markets to be on their own devices then you get monopoly. Regulation is ironically what makes free markets possible. It's basically exactly the same as democracy vs feudalism.