Message from @Sue✨
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Do you think the lead-lined canteens of the Roman armies were good @banestrum?
superficial pretending-to-care bullshit and calling people racist based on nothing, while real problems are ignored
you got a source for that?
I thought that was just the pipes in rome
@banestrum too bad the jeans are too small for american waists
@zahlman We can all see that globalism has purported to bring the world closer, but has eroded what binds nations together
How is global free trade a bad thing @banestrum?
@Deleted User I think it's a lot of export, so some must be made for us amerifats
So slavery is a good thing ?
wow, how enlightened of you hooty
You guys are starting to sound like communists
bahahaa what
and you're a retard
@Deleted User It's a net economic gain for the world, but those benefits mostly go into the pockets of multinational corporations and extremely wealthy individuals rather than to the societies that produced said goods
christ, what do you even think your own political alignment is
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
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