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Can somebody ELI5 the whole TPP thing? As an European should I be concerned? Does it matter only to countries involved?

by dkns 11y ago

ccvannorman 11y ago
The TPP is a wholesome beneficial legislation, orchestrated by businesses around the world to ensure their continued profits and ownership of capital creation, such as copyright (it will be harder to share content online without paying for it and DMCA youtube takedown style action will increase.) Furthermore it allows corporations to legally prosecute governments for getting in the way of their hard-earned profits or potential profits, for example if you don't allow a gold mining corporation to mine your gold, you as a country will be sued for the value of that gold. I can't understand why everyone has got their panties in a bunch over this; that small group of people with capital who makes and influences the laws will do what they can to make sure they keep getting the capital for the future, so that there is less transfer of wealth, which is necessary for a stable global economy.. I personally am looking forwards to when governments are abolished entirely and corporations simply write laws along side their company charters. Whichever corporation has more money, has more rights to enforce their laws.
- ionised 11y ago
  I hope this is sarcasm because otherwise it is ridiculously short-sighted and naive.
  - ccvannorman 11y ago
    /s
    - ionised 11y ago
      Thank god.
- DSingularity 11y ago
  You want for profit entities governing and writing our laws? Wow.
ionised 11y ago
As a European the one you should be concerned with is TTIP. It is basically TTP, but involves Europe instead of East Asia and Australia.
lepht 11y ago
There's literally dozens of /r/ELI5 threads on this[1] that are useful: - https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/23ubdy/eli5_what_is_the_trans_pacific_partnership_tpp/ https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/23ubdy/e... - https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3az0fa/eli5_what_does_the_tpp_transpacific_partnership/ https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3az0fa/e... [1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=eli5+tpp https://www.google.com/search?q=eli5+tpp

Can somebody ELI5 the whole TPP thing? As an European should I be concerned? Does it matter only to countries involved?

by dkns 11y ago

Can somebody ELI5 the whole TPP thing? As an European should I be concerned? Does it matter only to countries involved?

The TPP is a wholesome beneficial legislation, orchestrated by businesses around the world to ensure their continued profits and ownership of capital creation, such as copyright (it will be harder to share content online without paying for it and DMCA youtube takedown style action will increase.) Furthermore it allows corporations to legally prosecute governments for getting in the way of their hard-earned profits or potential profits, for example if you don't allow a gold mining corporation to mine your gold, you as a country will be sued for the value of that gold. I can't understand why everyone has got their panties in a bunch over this; that small group of people with capital who makes and influences the laws will do what they can to make sure they keep getting the capital for the future, so that there is less transfer of wealth, which is necessary for a stable global economy.. I personally am looking forwards to when governments are abolished entirely and corporations simply write laws along side their company charters. Whichever corporation has more money, has more rights to enforce their laws.

ionised 11y ago
I hope this is sarcasm because otherwise it is ridiculously short-sighted and naive.
- ccvannorman 11y ago
  /s
  - ionised 11y ago
    Thank god.
DSingularity 11y ago
You want for profit entities governing and writing our laws? Wow.

ionised 11y ago

As a European the one you should be concerned with is TTIP. It is basically TTP, but involves Europe instead of East Asia and Australia.

lepht 11y ago

There's literally dozens of /r/ELI5 threads on this[1] that are useful: - https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/23ubdy/eli5_what_is_the_trans_pacific_partnership_tpp/ https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/23ubdy/e... - https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3az0fa/eli5_what_does_the_tpp_transpacific_partnership/ https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3az0fa/e... [1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=eli5+tpp https://www.google.com/search?q=eli5+tpp