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Sask | See, we agree w1891. There can be no no such thing as "free trade" because the playing field is never level between two countries.
Yet you won't find anyone in the public sphere saying this openly. The peasants are told the world must have "free trade". How can you have and maintain something that is impossible to begin with and then go up in arms when an administration says we are no longer going to have "free trade".
So yes, trade is far more complex than people demanding "free trade".
Since we can agree "free trade" does not exist then the opposite side of that coin is tarrifs to relevel the playing field.
As to reformedbanker, yes - that too is correct, military force is used to enforce our fiat system based on debt based expansion. Once a person really understands the implication of going off the gold standard (or let's use tangible assets of any kind) vs currency created out of thin air, then one starts to understand the heavy hand that keeps the system in check.
And then one understands that your government is subservient to another entity, not the other way around.
It is not something I will get into here, as we are talking 99.99% of the population won't even begin to comprehend how the system works and yes - enforced, but it is nice to see someone else who understands it. Those 900 military bases around the world are not there for democracy or freedom.
There was a time when gold was free (I mean in the unmanipulated sense) and so all countries and trade recognized its value and so trade was done without an invisible enforcement arm that we now have. Once you remove the honesty that gold granted the system, golds role was replaced by force.
And then we get into a whole different avenue of why the world works the way it does and we are far, far, far away from "free trade" being anything remotely relevant. | |
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