Message from @banestrum
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Hooty is a corprate whore
`neoliberal`
```"libertarian"```
@Deleted User I'd be a communist if people were entirely logical and not emotional at all
Too bad that's not reality
[boot up the internet machine] time for a little own-a-rooni on the sargon chat
Thanks, Luigi
With goatee?
That's horrifying
Free trade equals economic slavery?
Where is the logic in that?
Are you willing to listen to our explanations?
... I like the part where you were given reasoning to start out with, and then discarded the reasoning in order to substitute your strawman, and then asked where the reasoning is
that's quite impressive, really
Ya
I'm just taking what you said @zahlman
er, which part, I think you're getting people mixed up now
is this how it works?
gimme a sec
For me, "economic freedom" on a global scale means that all nations can trade with each other with little to no restrictions. This means that regional differences in prices are esentially meaningless in such a large market, and so nations are essentially locked in to producing whatever creates the greatest GDP. So a nation with lots of fertile land is going to produce cash crops to sell on the international market and use the profits to buy food from somewhere else. If a nation did anything less than maximize their GDP, they would be outcompeted by other nations in the market and subjugated by economic means
Essentially, nations are locked into producing certain things by the current prices of the market and general economic pressure
I see
they don't want to have to compete with others
I get that the global economy produces the most economically efficient solutions on a global scale via market pressure, but it also creates extremely unbalanced systems that border on global monopolies
rather stay primitive & backwards
> produces the most economically efficient solutions
not even necessarily this, considering the overhead of transportation
like Islam
transporting goods also has environmental consequences
At the end of this, every nation produces exactly one product to sell on the market, and essentially holds a gun to the head of the world. If Neo-USA stops producing the worlds supply of planes, nobody has planes, thusly everyone is enslaved to the USA. And everyone is enslaved to each other via resource production
They're not resource efficient by any means
makes sense
So I'm not denying the benefits of globalization, but there are downsides to it.
As a classical liberal, you should watch these.
Ok, so that first one, everything they said was technically correct
But costs ARE passed on to other nations via externalities
Could be environmental costs from production, health costs from pollution, whatever, because the global economy is global, the costs and benefits are going to be spread around