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Corporation have not the society's greater good at heart. If you think trade deals like this one are beneficial to you as a citizen, you are either delusional
by touristtam 11y ago
Corporation have not the society's greater good at heart.
If you think trade deals like this one are beneficial to you as a citizen, you are either delusional or disingenuous. Sure, the price of food might go down at the retail, but at what cost? What's the impact of these policies on the ecosystem we are inhabiting? What's the political cost both to the directly concerned country and to their partners? You like to have cheap goods, but can't bear to see the peripheral human (social, political and economical) and environmental cost of this?
We should all know by now, the market is far from pure and perfect, and every single actor participating is trying to bend the rules in their favor. If on top of that, we have non-elected decision maker walking hand in hand with big corporation (which are incidentally supra national private entities), it should make question the direction of such trade talks.
As for the FUD spread in specific market against new entrance, it more akin to a cartel system than anything else. like the car manufacturer in Europe blocking the liberalization of retail cars back in the mid to late 90s. It should have not have happened, but it did, thanks to corporate lobbyist.