Unilateral free trade is better

And the power of companies, businesses, and capitalism itself is far higher, while being far more discrete. Businesses grow overtime with little restraint from the outside, amassing a gigantic amount of indirect power. They may not be able to force you to buy a product, but they can kill the competition, ramp up prices overtime, and essentially make their product the only product available in that sector. Government merely assists in these companies getting this kind of power, but it’s also the only thing strong enough to defend against those forces in an industry. If capital interests…  Read more feel threatened, they will not try to weaken government, but to corrupt it instead, and make fascism more likely. Keeping government weak gives those interests a sense of safety, all while we have less safety when boom-bust-cycles hit, or when employee benefits are slashed. That government power being slashed only decreases the rate of profit further than what it already is, making capitalism’s lifetime much shorter since the rate of profit will only fall faster due to deregulation attempts. Directly speaking, government is an easy boogie man to hate, but it’s a tool, one piloted in this system largely by the rich, and therefore, reflects their interests in its actions. You may not know it, but whenever you hate on government itself, often the hate is more directed towards their interests.