... Model "Trade Agreement": "How about the government butts the f*** out of private transactions in general?"
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Replying to @Outsideness @GolfNorman and
... The (British) East India Company did it best. Downhill all the way since.
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Replying to @BoxcutterDM @GolfNorman and
Chartered. Not much other government involvement before the Opium War / Indian Mutiny. Then everything went to leftist-imperialist shit.
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Replying to @BoxcutterDM @GolfNorman and
The East India Company had its own private military dedicated to commercial purposes. ...
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... Replacing that with direct government military protection (against Chinese drug-trade obstructionism and Indian jihadists) looked superficially like a movement towards liberalization of trade, but we can now see that it wasn't. ...
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... Once you cease running your own security, Leviathan will continually crank-up the price of keeping you safe.
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Agreed. It ran crying to mummy. Single greatest mistake in the history of the Anglosphere.
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