Of course trade is beneficial in many ways. The issue is straightforward: most of its benefits have been accruing to large corporations.
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Chinese ex-peasants working at Foxconn's horrendous factories are children of rural folk who survived mass starvation. Better yes. Good? No.
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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.2 replies 2 retweets 3 likes -
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A reasonable trade policy that truly lifted more boats in poor countries & cushioned first-world workers would still make lot of profit.
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(Economists can't argue corporations won't do trade for less profit. Yes they would, and, hey, marginal utility idea says they would)
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There is an enormous amount of improvement possible to global trade policies if we can just accept a teeny bit less corporate profit.
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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.
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It's 2016. We should be able to discuss the politics of global trade without mercantilist strawmen on the table, no?
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@zeynep@Noahpinion Is yours the strawman here? Noah said 'improvements'.pic.twitter.com/htFKpCxmPz
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@Roddy_Campbell@Noahpinion Me? I'm pointing out you cannot have a politics in which first world people vote to decimate own jobs.+1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@Roddy_Campbell @Noahpinion ..out of altruism to poorest workers improving from a very low baseline alongside huge corporate profit levels.
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@zeynep@Noahpinion I don't recall Noah mentioning altruism either? Are you tackling what he said, or something else?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Roddy_Campbell@Noahpinion "Neoliberal trade helped the world's poor from horrific baseline" is not a great argument. I explained why.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes - Show replies
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