Noam Chomsky - Free Trade Agreements

Noam Chomsky - Free Trade Agreements

Chomsky's Philosophy

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@masterlongstroke5078

6 years ago

I so want to speak with this man in person.. Today is not soon enough

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@marcelopvargasb89

6 years ago

Where can I find more information on this? does he speak about this in any of his books?

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@Mike-dx1ul

6 years ago

I have a problem with Noam Chomsky.  I pretty much 100% agree with him.   He's got to be wrong once in a while right?

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@p.a.f.mitasol8071

7 years ago

Noam with the greatest respect, see somebody about that throat, or at least   try warm lemon with a rum chaser.

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first of all we should avoid the term

free trade because the agreements that

are signed are not free trade agreements

they have highly protectionist elements

they're basically investor rights

agreements so then they privilege

investors and corporations and very high

protective tariffs for major

corporations international electoral

property rights are essentially Paris

and though the and in many ways and a

lot of it them unitive trade so for

example the so-called free trade

agreements grant investors special

rights in the countries where they

invest so if a US companies that invests

in Mexico they have to be treated like a

Mexican company that's got nothing to do

with free trade in fact a lot of the

interactions among countries aren't even

traded in any reasonable sets so it

takes a u.s. Mexico probably

corporations don't give us data so it's

guesswork but probably about half of the

commercial interactions across the

border are actually internal to a

multinational corporation so say General

Motors will assemble parts in a state

say Indiana send them to northern Mexico

for assembly and then return the car to

Los Angeles for sale

that's called trade in both directions

but it isn't trade it's an interaction

inside a closed economy then with the

multinational corporation so the free

trade rooms aren't aren't free trade

agreements there's nothing else and

they're they do have complex effects I

mean the one effect often is to increase

poverty so for example pick say

us-mexico of the the North American

so-called free trade agreement inside

the 1994 it was predicted pretty widely

that this would be quite harmful

Mexican farmers and small business

working people and so on and indeed it

has been it's it's been valuable to the

corporate system that's been in Mexico

it's led to a huge growth in the number

of billionaire on the other hand for

concie knows you know peasant Sunday and

agricultural work predictably it

undermined them I mean they may be

perfectly efficient that they can't

compete with highly subsidized US

agribusiness it's another respect which

is not treat raid so they flock to the

cities there's less work for them in the

cities because Mexican businesses can't

compete with the US multinationals they

come across the border and gotten what's

called the immigration problem and this

is the kind of effect that these

neoliberal programs typically have it

leads to concentration of wealth to our

level of corruption and to cutting back

benefits for the general population and

harming the workforce

so people are were stagnating while

wealth is accumulating in very few and

standard consequence perfectly

predictable and it happens over and over

and it leads to popular uprisings