Macroeconomics, without the –isms

K. Here’s a thing that has me twisted this moment: free trade, everything else being equal, is supposed to be good, but when enacted it tends to make everything important more unequal.

Inequality, as a result, has been normalized, and the un-free-trading movement has been latched onto as a way to move bigotry (but not economic inequality) back to being normalized (because the dumb thieving rich have already been sufficiently normalized), rather than ever putting the rich in check.

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