Comment by aebtebeten

> [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.