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Originally Posted by FibrillatorD
Yeah, its not enough for the billion or so people scraping small plots of land to face irrational 1st-world agricultural subsidies and banana quotas. After all, most of them have good manufacturing jobs waiting for them in the city.
Besides the whole like compassion for your fellow man thing, its in the 1st-world consumer's best interest for the 3rd world's farmers to gain access to 1st world markets, where we're at a competitive disadvantage.
Moral argument aside, why shouldn't this happen, Dale?
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I'm not saying it shouldn't. I am saying that I don't care if it doesn't. The problem in the Third World is based on bad governments, not bad markets. Get good governments in Whereveristanesia and we will beat a path to their door to buy and sell everything and everything from their people.
Leave bad governments in place and all the money, resources, and farm towers on the planet won't make a bit of difference to them.
-dale