The trade treaty thing is so complicated -- the TPP seems like a good idea and supports small countries against China, which seriously thinks it owns all pieces of land (and sea) it ever conquered. And is good for the US of course. But it might be the right approach.
Then corporations twisted the system which ended up a race to the bottom in environmental and human rights.
That was the anti-TPP coalition, environmentalists, unions, civil liberties, and tech intellectual freedom fighters, and apparently nativist paranoids. Hillary Clinton saw how much resistance to it was in the primary and bowed to the inevitable. Which is good, reflect the people who vote for you. I assume that there will be a round II with some improvements.
I think global trade has mostly been good for poor countries, despite the billionaire kelptocracies. Fewer subsistence farmers, less poverty, a working class that can be more like th world they see on TV. But it's clearly not good enough, or no one would feel a desperate need to emigrate.
And then the roboticizing of service jobs in the US, it's so weird and anti-humane. Even my silicon valley tech friends worry about it, and we're all starting to talk about a guaranteed minimum support, so maybe some of the unemployed could study, or build, or make art or follow their bliss. But why should we have that and not people in Mexico or Haiti or Sudan?
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Date: 2016-10-15 02:26 am (UTC)The trade treaty thing is so complicated -- the TPP seems like a good idea and supports small countries against China, which seriously thinks it owns all pieces of land (and sea) it ever conquered. And is good for the US of course. But it might be the right approach.
Then corporations twisted the system which ended up a race to the bottom in environmental and human rights.
That was the anti-TPP coalition, environmentalists, unions, civil liberties, and tech intellectual freedom fighters, and apparently nativist paranoids. Hillary Clinton saw how much resistance to it was in the primary and bowed to the inevitable. Which is good, reflect the people who vote for you. I assume that there will be a round II with some improvements.
I think global trade has mostly been good for poor countries, despite the billionaire kelptocracies. Fewer subsistence farmers, less poverty, a working class that can be more like th world they see on TV. But it's clearly not good enough, or no one would feel a desperate need to emigrate.
And then the roboticizing of service jobs in the US, it's so weird and anti-humane. Even my silicon valley tech friends worry about it, and we're all starting to talk about a guaranteed minimum support, so maybe some of the unemployed could study, or build, or make art or follow their bliss. But why should we have that and not people in Mexico or Haiti or Sudan?
I dunno.