Comment by 627467
12 days ago
I like the initial emphasis on the trade treaties of his talk.
IMO the scope and amount of these treaties have been unacceptable and the only reason they passed were due to the framing of thia magical thinking that any increased trade is always great "enlarging the pie" and everyone ignores the fact that it creates a huge monoculture that is unable to accommodate people's with vastly different needs.
These treaties alienate people in the same same supranational orgs like EU does.
The framing of "rules" based order masks the fact that its "rules set mostly by the hegemon in its favour"
> [trade] creates a huge monoculture that is unable to accommodate people's with vastly different needs
How so? Cash on the barrelhead doesn't care which cultures are on either side. During the Cold War, capitalists and communists traded with each other. I myself have traded with people whose language and culture I hadn't the foggiest of.
Monoculture is problematic, yes, but its roots must be in something other than trade.