January 08, 2003
Trade Hipocrisy
The chief ideologist of US trade policy defends its ‘free trade’ impulse in The Economist as a route to global prosperity. In reality, responds Oxfam’s head of research, the US increasingly pursues trade policies that undermine the life-chances of poor people in poor countries.
The freetrade in a free meanings is exactly what it should be named, a name for that any nation in the world could join and exactly trade freely. But, in practical world, it's exactly far to reach in any free way. It's easily let to be a new kind of imperialism. Is that really dangerous? Yes, with deep simpathy. You should imagine an illustration like this, if anyone could sell their product to Indonesia, how about the local Indonesian producer of that same product? Yes, they could sell it off to another country, but man, realize it if the Indonesian product is bad than another country's product. Yes, it should be our false, why we don't use any state of the art mass production methodologies, why we don't use high tech technology to increase productivity, so we could gain a lower price and better quality. Or just asking myself, why we're bad? It's good answer but stupid thought, what you imagine if we had a large amount of unemployeed people, but we used to use a state of the art machine that cut off any people in production. Industry is another kind of art that we should gain the best in productivity but in the other case we should compromise with employment and life chances.
So, do we continue to free trade? For non-poor country with a few amount of unemployment, I think we should. It's a best way to gain productivity and quality. But for poor ones, oh man, are you crazy with that?
Posted at January 08, 2003 05:44 PM | Perspective
