in well functioning representative democracies people will have more freedom and so a better standard of living.
people outside of well functioning representative democracies will be provided with incentive to work harder to compete in the open market with goods produced by well functioning representative democracies.
people in well functioning representative democracies will always have tariffs which prevent their workers being overwhelmed by shoddy products built by slaves and child workers in polluted environments.
most economists who are either directly or indirectly on the take from globalists will always favor so called free trade to favor international corporations over ordinary people. economists are fundamentally antithetical to well functioning representative democracies.
that is to say, let me be explicit here so that my meaning is clear, most economists’ notions are biased and not to be trusted as far as one can spit, because they are fundamentally compromised. they are fundamentally compromised because of who pays them and if not them, most in their peer group— generally, globalists.
the usa was built on tariffs. without tariffs— no usa!
economists gave us nafta, gatt, wto, and the eu. if enough of them were around at the beginning there would have been no usa at all, just a bunch of exxons, and general electrics, plus lots of child labor, shoddy products, polluted environments, and banana republic dictatorships.
Thank you for that quick lesson in the folly of globalism.
Most economists are trained as priests of central banking, which is inherently contemptuous of national sovereignty.