• TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    Globalisation and free trade are a good thing as long as everyone involved is doing it with good intentions.

    And as you’ve pointed out, not everyone involved is doing with good intentions, therefore it’s not a good thing.

    Sure, if you wanna do absolutes, you could probably calculate whether the bad effect of China fucking up the world by giving their companies an infinite money cheat code is worse than the benefits. And you’d arrive at some result.

    And clearly liberals have arrived at the conclusion that the bad effects outweigh the benefits, since they are abandoning their previous commitment to open borders and free trade, and moving more toward protectionist policies and reshoring industries.