What happened to all the free traders that used to inhabit this site. Surely this would be a good thing in their eyes for many decades. How could they have been so wrong?
I think most mean fair trade, not free.
Free trade leads to situations like China. They can use forced labour from camps to make things, then sell it. In a normal country, one has to pay for that labour, and usually pay decently for skilled labour. This is not factoring in the costs of materials of course.