Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Rio Olympics

Collapse
X
Collapse
 
  • Page of 15
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
Previous 1 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 15 template Next
  • #121
    Originally posted by Aeson View Post
    So you are admitting free trade benefits economic growth finally
    Which is mainly benefitting the elite only. Nice try. Free trade is still a pile of ****. Free trade only benefits the elite. Stop peddling propaganda.

    The poor in India are actually worse off. Free trade is insanity and is an elitist idea.
    For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

    Comment

    • #122
      "mainly" and "only" in the same sentence

      Comment

      • #123
        So how do you feel putting more money in the pockets of the elite and making the poor even more destitute?
        For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

        Comment

        • #124
          How do you feel about being a violent axe murderer?

          Comment

          • #125
            Lol.
            For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

            Comment

            • #126
              I have my own small business (sole proprietorship, I am the only employee) which has brought me out of poverty, supports a family of 8, has sent 4 kids to college, and supports another business which consistently loses money to pay higher wages for the workers who were generally unemployed. Now they are employed in improving degraded land and producing high quality low price veggies for the local markets. This has allowed some of them to start their own businesses, improve their own land, build/improve their homes, keep their kids in school, buy transportation of their own, and have some extra money for enjoying their time off.

              Free trade would have allowed me to increase wages further, improve more degraded land, and/or hire more workers. Instead a significant % of our capital goes to pay tariffs on tools and materials that aren't available locally. Also it makes it difficult to impossible to sell to foreign markets, greatly diminishing the potential to raise wages.

              Comment

              • #127
                You must be one of the local 1%ers.
                It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
                RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

                Comment

                • #128
                  In the specific area I am in, probably more like a 0.05%er...

                  Comment

                  • #129
                    Originally posted by Aeson View Post
                    I have my own small business (sole proprietorship, I am the only employee) which has brought me out of poverty, supports a family of 8, has sent 4 kids to college, and supports another business which consistently loses money to pay higher wages for the workers who were generally unemployed. Now they are employed in improving degraded land and producing high quality low price veggies for the local markets. This has allowed some of them to start their own businesses, improve their own land, build/improve their homes, keep their kids in school, buy transportation of their own, and have some extra money for enjoying their time off.

                    Free trade would have allowed me to increase wages further, improve more degraded land, and/or hire more workers. Instead a significant % of our capital goes to pay tariffs on tools and materials that aren't available locally. Also it makes it difficult to impossible to sell to foreign markets, greatly diminishing the potential to raise wages.
                    Not buying it. For most people, free trade damages their prospects and puts small business out of business. Then they are forced to work for low wages in either a sweat shop or factory.

                    Free trade is a capitalist lie and myth.
                    For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

                    Comment

                    • #130
                      You have a very faith based personality.
                      “It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”

                      ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man​

                      Comment

                      • #131
                        So you think that free trade between California and the rest of the US hurts everyone who isn't rich?

                        Comment

                        • #132
                          We don't have "free" trade. I still have to pay sales taxes.
                          “It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”

                          ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man​

                          Comment

                          • #133
                            Originally posted by pchang View Post
                            You have a very faith based personality.
                            I leave that for the free trade proponents who are selling people snake oil.
                            For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

                            Comment

                            • #134
                              Originally posted by Aeson View Post
                              So you think that free trade between California and the rest of the US hurts everyone who isn't rich?
                              Oh. I didn't realize all the states were their own country. Are we governed by the Articles of Confederation?
                              For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

                              Comment

                              • #135
                                So free trade inside a countrys boundaries is good while free trade between countries is bad. That is so contradictionary that it doesn't make any sense.
                                With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

                                Steven Weinberg

                                Comment

                                Previous 1 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 15 template Next
                                Working...
                                X