LadyEllen
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I'm not too sure that we can ever have justice in a world which relies on the utter diktat of free market economics where thats beneficial to it, but then abandons such principles when and as it suits.
The free market relies on the exploitation of the weak by the strong in any given trade. For instance, if I have my truck empty in Milano, and there are no reloads except from one client, that client will screw me good and hard over the price he pays if I am to be the only haulier to get a reload that week. And if every client has a reload and I am the only one with a truck, well its likely I will screw him good and hard over the price I charge. Thats the nature of a free market after all, and ultimately I'm out for me and no one else. Since no one is going to come and bail me out of banruptcy if I'm nice to everyone, I have to make hay when the sun shines, to see me through any bad times when its me getting screwed.
That's all OK for me - its in the game and I know that a short while later the boot will be on the other foot and whoever screwed me I can screw back when things change.
But in a world market where the weak are kept perpetually weak by WTO trade deals and subsidies that make it impossible for the weak to sell at more than cost even when they are permitted to, things never change and the weak never get a break from being mercilessly exploited to the point of slavery, whilst their masters in the west drive a new Mercedes fuelled with the blood of peasant farmers too poor to afford a donkey let alone a car.
This is where the injustice is, and regardless of any moralising by our leaders about it, they will never change the arrangement and risk losing votes because this or that native industry would suffer from allowing competition from weaker countries, or risk losing the finance necessary to their election campaigns by upsetting big business in such a way. Thus the injustice will continue unabated and aid instead of trade is the lot of the poorer nations, donated to their corrupt officials so that those countries will keep quiet about it and keep their peasants under control and working hard for the mighty dollar, pound and euro just to stay alive.
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