It would keep him busy. We could pay him a living wage to do it
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@phbarratt you bought the free trade bullshit? Ask a Korean worker how his Union is going. Strewth!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@QuentinDempster To. A. Point. Globalisation is not exactly a perfect alternate policy.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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We have always been at war with Eurasia
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even if protectionism is limited? Can you help those of us not trained in economics to understand why that is?
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Resources deployed inefficiently on protected good/services when they should be more efficiently used elsewhere
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Can't fully explain in 140 chrs. My thoughts: we're terrible at distributing bnfts, espec to those disrupted by industry shifts.
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Free Trade is not fair trade when workers in the 1st world are forced to compete with people on slave wages in other countries
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whereas protecting the first world worker's lifestyle by barring others from competing on wages is fair. Got it.
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you don't have to think it's fair but don't act surprised when decades of stagnation leads to Trump,Brexit,LePen etc
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I'm not sure the children of Chinese peasants would call the past few decades "stagnation".
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if the situation was reversed they'd never have harmed their own economic interests to help westerners
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China, Sth Korea etc all impose tariffs to protect their industries how do you think they built them
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surely he cannot fail to realize that those he tarrifs will tarrif back destroying exporting industries
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with neoliberal free-trade being the economic equivalent of a rich person spitting on and punching you in the face.
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He has a top notch team of advisers. They will set him straight.
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I can do that.
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