Umm, sure, being harshly exploited is better than being totally redundant. Similar: Jim Crow better than slavery.https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/717768040146870272 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Noah Smith 🐇
Umm, sure, being harshly exploited is better than being totally redundant. Similar: Jim Crow better than slavery.https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/717768040146870272 …
zeynep tufekci added,
Of course trade is beneficial in many ways. The issue is straightforward: most of its benefits have been accruing to large corporations.
Chinese ex-peasants working at Foxconn's horrendous factories are children of rural folk who survived mass starvation. Better yes. Good? No.
I'm guessing @Noahpinion wouldn't voluntarily vote to turn over his job to 10 Indian economists at $10K a piece? Can't have such politics.
A reasonable trade policy that truly lifted more boats in poor countries & cushioned first-world workers would still make lot of profit.
(Economists can't argue corporations won't do trade for less profit. Yes they would, and, hey, marginal utility idea says they would)
There is an enormous amount of improvement possible to global trade policies if we can just accept a teeny bit less corporate profit.
Anyone arguing trade is awesome as is as it helped world's poor—much less than it could—needs to outsource own job first to show sincerity.
It's 2016. We should be able to discuss the politics of global trade without mercantilist strawmen on the table, no? @Noahpinion
Finally, trade as it is practiced is one part of multiple, multi-decade forces weakening employer/worker leverage vis-a-vis corporations.
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