http://www.ttgconsultants.com/articles/freetrade.html One says Yaaay
http://www.isometry.com/trade.html the other says nayyy
Which rabbit hole to descend into?
The two links above go to articles arguing for and against free trade.
My take: Numbers don't lie, but propaganda does and it exists on both sides. One group wants to tell you what WILL happen, while the other tends to extract data from what has already happened.
One argument I cannot get behind is the idea that big business destroys cultural solidarity and unity, to me that sounds like a homogenizing and therefore insulting blanket statement. What culture has ever existed in which every member WANTED to stay within their cultural norms? People create their own culture regardless of their circumtances, it evolves and changes over time, some leave and return, some don't. To rail against the changing of ones circumstances and use the excuse of cultural change (brought on by economic evolution) as a bad thing in order to justify it is nothing if not narrow-minded -- in my opinion.
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