Comment by corimaith
10 hours ago
You are 100% correct. Free Trade hasn't been disproven, only the inane notion that one should pursue unreciproval free trade with a countries that perform mercantalism against them.
The consumer isn't everything, the worker does matter just as much.
>You are 100% correct. Free Trade hasn't been disproven
"nono, that's not REAL communism, that's just dictatorship!"
"nono that's not REAL free trade, it's government intervention!"
"And I Would Have Gotten Away With It Too, If It Weren't For You Meddling Kids!"
Funny how when you get to the two end of the spectrum of economic theories you suddenly get to horseshoe theory of politics.
Maybe in a century or two we will finally see that armchair theories that disregard human nature and builds on simplified models of the world, have its limitations, rather than insisting that unless it haven't been 100% practiced to its Puritan image, it can't be disproven.